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LIGHTING.
The number of street lamps at Lady Day, 1893, was 4,584, gas
having been supplied to them at a cost of 2s. 2d. per 1,000 feet.
Thirty-four new lamps of the ordinary pattern have been erected
during the year as well as 82 lamps of the ornamental pattern. These
have been placed in Aberdeen Road, Alfred Street, Arlington Square,
Camden Street, Dame Street, Gordon Street, Horsell Road, Junction
Road, Medina Road, Mildmay Grove, Northolme Road, Queen's Place,
Raynor Place, Rotherfield Street, Shepperton Road, Sotheby Road,
Sudeley Street and Whitehall Park.
The total cost of the gas supplied to street lamps for the year
(including lighting, extinguishing and cleaning) amounted to
£13,214 3s. 6d., as against £12,827 10s. l0d. for the previous twelve
months.
£1,135 19s. 3d. was expended in the purchase of new columns,
lanterns and fittings and for the general maintenance of street lamps.
New refuge lamps have been fixed in Seven Sisters Road by
Isledon Road, in Tufnell Park Road by Carleton Road, and in St.
George's Avenue by Carleton Road. The positions of 87 lamps have
been altered, 24 have been set to line of kerb, and the lighting of 43
has been discontinued.
The substitution of 16 inch lanterns for old 14 inch lanterns has
been continued, 21 of the former having been put up during the year,
and 52 6-feet per hour burners have been substituted in place of 4 feet
6 inch burners.
Permission has been given for the erection of private column lamps
on the footway of the undermentioned places, an agreement having
been entered into by the owners of the lamps in each case:—
24 in front of Archway Parade, Archway Road.
2 in front of Jubilee Hall, Hornsey Road.
1 in front of No. 26 Upper Street.
Three convictions have been obtained at the Police Courts against
persons found guilty of wilfully damaging or extinguishing street
lamps.