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Fergus Road.
Alsen Road, N.W. of Bedford Terrace.
Crescent Mews.
Table A attached gives particulars of work done during the year.
LIGHTING.
The number of street lamps at Lady Day, 1891, was 4,398,
gas being supplied to them at the cost of 2s. 2d. per 1,000 feet.
91 new lamps of the ordinary pattern have been erected during the
year, as well as 99 ornamental lamps in Essex Road, Ball's Pond Road,
Islington Green (north-east and south-east sides), Aberdeen Road,
Seven Sisters' Road, and Bishop's Grove.
The total cost of the gas supplied to street lamps for the year
(including lighting, extinguishing, cleaning and painting) amounted to
£12,518. 5s. 0d., as against £11,901. 9s. 3d. for the previous twelve
months. £1,337. 10s. 5d. was expended in the purchase of new columns
lanterns and fittings, and for general maintenance of street lamps.
New refuge lamps have been fixed in Tufnell Park Road by Lady
Margaret Road and in Highbury New Park at the junction of Grosvenor
Road and by the north and south entrances of Highbury Quadrant.
The positions of 99 lamps have been altered, the lighting of 102
has been discontinued, and 194 street name tablets have been fixed in
others which occupy suitable positions at corners of streets.
The substitution of 16 inch lanterns for old 14 inch lanterns has
been continued, 140 of the former having been put up during the year.
Permission has been granted for the erection of a private column
lamp on the footway of Parkhurst Road at the entrance to Parkhurst
Hall.
One conviction has been obtained at the Clerkenwell Police Court
against a person found guilty of wilfully damaging street lamps.
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Early in 1890, as mentioned in the last annual report, the House
to House Electric Supply Company, Limited, obtained a provisional
order for the supply of electricity to the parish. It was hoped