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St Mary (Islington) 1892

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]

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Table: PREPARED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION OF THE SPECIAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 12th, 1892.

PREPARED PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION OF THE SPECIAL ELECTRIC LIGHTING COMMITTEE, OCTOBER 12th, 1892.

PARISH, BOROUGH, or District.Area in Acres.Population.Number of Inhabited houses.System of Electric Lighting in use. when adopted, and if proved satisfactory.Total cost of installation.Area of site of station.Length of mains included in above cost of installation.Number of 16 candle-power lamps provided for when station fully loaded, and number now installed (including street lighting, if any).Number of private houses or shops supplied.Number of units (actual or estimated delivered to consumers during last completed year.Price per unit charged to private consumers.Cost of production per unit, delivered to consumer (including allowance for depreciation, redemption fund, &c.Total percentage of costs to revenue.Is there a good demand for electricity in the district in preference to gasAS TO STREET LIGHTING.
System in use for street lighting, and length of streets lighted.Number of public street lamps supplied, and total estimated candle power of same.Number of gas lamps superseded, and total estimated candle-power of same.Total cost of street lighting.Estimated cost during same period of gas lamps superseded
(a) Of Parish, Borough, or District.(a) Site.
(b) Of District supplied.(b) Works, Machinery and Plant
(c) Mains.
???RINGTON ..(a) 3,42538,6038,000Mr. Shoolbred, of Victoria St., "Westminster. is now preparing Plans and Specifications for an initial scheme to cost £10,000.2,000 square yards.........................6d. proposed to be charged.............Not known yet.No Street Lighting yet provided for.
???RADFORD(a) 10,776216,36145,887Low tension continuous. Station opened in Sept.. 1889. Quite satisfactory.(a) A Ground Rent of £167 16s. is paid.60 feet × 150 feet.19 Miles.10,000 provided for. About 18,000 installedThe lighting is chiefly for shops and business premises. About 200 use the light.154,431 for half-year ending Dec. 31st, 1891.5d. for lighting purposes, and 4½d. for motive power.4.04d.67.33Yes. Number of Lamps fixed Jan. 1st, 1891, 8,467; ditto, Dec. 31st, 1891, 15,000.No Public Lighting is done.
(b) 25,000 sq. yds.(b) £34,183
(c) £6,255
???RIGHTON (Corporation.)(a) 2,620116,42419,619Low tension. Quite satisfactory.(a) £2,500About 912 sq. yds.4 Miles.10,000, with a maximum of 5,000 in use at one time. About 5,272 lamps installed.184First complete year will not expire until 31st Dec., 18927d.Supply commenced in October, 1891, and accounts for first complete year will not be made up until after Dec. 31st.Yes.None at present. The Council are about to consider proposals for this purpose.
(b) £19,400
(b) At present 218½ acres, but the Council are about to extend the area of supply to 622½ acres.(c) £13,500
???GHTON (Company.)..................High tension alternating transformer system. Adopted 1881. Quite satisfactory...................15 miles of cable overhead.8,000 at present supplied.............7d. per unit, with discounts down to 3½d.............Yes. Extensions in mains being continually made.No Public Street Lighting
???NLEYThe Council have at present tenders for an installation under consideration.
???ION-UPON-TRENT(a) 4,02546,0518,904The Corporation have only just obtained the sanction of the Board of Trade to a system, and are applying to the Local Government Board for sanction to borrow the money so that the works will not be completed for perhaps twelve months.The Corporation own the Gas Works and supply the public lamps.
???ENTRYThe question of Electric Lighting is under consideration in this city, but nothing has at present been done beyond obtaining estimates and schemes from electrical companies for the lighting, which schemes are now under consideration.
???SBURYSupply not yet commenced, but advertisements for tenders for the supply of the necessary plant, &c., are being issued.
???ERNo Installation has yet been completed here. The Corporation are still in negociation with the Brush Company as to an agreement.
???DEE(a) 4,099156,000......Low tension continuous current, but not yet in use.Approximately about £25,000 in all.29 poles, 10 yards.Distribution mains about 3,515 yards. Feeder mains, 1,150 yards.5,000None as yet.......5d. proposed to be charged...................Not as yet known.
(b) 102 (Compulsory).
???TER......50,00010,000High tension alternating current with transformers. Quite satisfactory.(a) £1,000 (including building).660 square yards.9 miles.10,000 provided for 3,000 installed.120147,0007½d. by meter, and 1s. per candle power per annum, by contract.5¾d.......Large and increasing demand.None.
(b) £7,000.
(c) £4,000 (approximate).
† FLEETWOODTenders now under consideration.Great competition for the district from various companies.
GLASGOW......560,000......Low tension (not yet started).About £60,000.980 square yards.About 7 miles.12,000............7d..................Brush arc lamps 3 miles.106 to be supplied of 2,000 nominal c.p. each.360 Pillars. 588 Burners.About £8,000 for plant.£1,334 6s. 10d. gas per annum. Maintenance 3/11 per lamp. Lighting and lamp
†HANLEY(a) 1,76856,00011,000(System proposed to be used). High tension alternating current, with low tension distributing work from converting stations in the Compulsory area.(Estimated) £21,000Proposed site, 1 acre.3,450 high tension mains.5,000 16 candle-power lamps, all lighted at same time. 300,000 Watts with spare plant for one- third more. 20-2,000 n.c.p. arc lamps for street lighting.Contract made with Brush Company, but not yet commenced operations.Contract for scheme entered into, but the sanction to borrow has not yet been received from the Local Government Board.(Proposed to be adopted). Continuous current, lamps in series, 2 miles 640 yards 'of cables.20-2,000 n.c.p. lamps or 30-1,200.If 30 lamps are in stalled, 5o gas lamps superseded, having total candle power of 4,000 candles.First cost £1,796 included in contract. Estimated annual cost of working, £320,If 20 lamps as before, £220; if 30, £304
3,150 low tension mains.
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HASTINGSThe Corporation have not established electriclight works of their own. The electric lamps on the front line are lighted by a local company under contract with the Council.
HOVEThe Hove Commissioners have transferred their power to a company, "Hove Electric lighting Company." Deed of transfer not yet approved by Board of Trade, but there is every reason to suppose it will be.
†HUDDEESFIELD(a) 11,78895,41720,930The system is not yet in use, but will be a high tension (2,000 volts alternating current supply to trans former stations.When completed will be about £30,000 (site leasehold on ground rent).4,000 yards.3,000 yards primary, high tension, 6,000 yards low tensionPresent contract will include machinery to supply 4,000 16 candle-power lamps.System not yet in operation.......6d.............YesGas.
†KINGSTON-UPON-HULL(a) 7,901204,7549,810Low tension direct with accumulators.(a) Rent charge of £100 a year.4,340 square feet.4,500 yards.4,500 burning simultaneously,8,000 ditto when station fully extended. At present about 1,500 installed.Works started in December, 1892.7d...................Very likely to be.Nothing being done in this direction at present.
(b) 125, to be extended to 250 acres.(b) £14,900
(c) £10,100

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Note.—Installations marked *have been viewed by the Special Electric Lighting Sub-Committee.
„ In places marked † the Local Authorities are the undertakers, the remaining installations not so marked being carried out by Companies.
December, 1892.