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Bevenden Mews—Constructing a new gulley outlet, £13 16s. 5d.
Old Street Road—Laying down 480 feet run 15-inch pipe in lieu
of old brick sewer, £108 8s. 7d.
Royal Oak Walk—Reconstructing 12-inch pipe sewer, £32 7s 2d.
There were three flushers employed in cleansing the sewers in the
Parish, also a laborer generally employed on sewers work, and the
amount paid them for wages was £284 18s. 2d. for the year; one man
was employed in cleansing the urinals in the Parish, and his wages for
the year was £53 14s. 8d.
The cost of water for cleansing the seventeen urinals belonging to
the Vestry was £15 13s. for the year.
The number of public lamps in the Parish on the 25th March,
1871, was 1179.
Lighted by the Independent Gas Company 1107
Lighted by the Chartered Gas Company 72
Five lighted by the Chartered Gas Company, under the Railway
arch in Sun Street, are burning day and night, and are paid for by the
North London Railway Company.
The cost of lighting the Parish was £4493 17s. 10d. for the year,
of which the North London Railway Company contributed £36 1s. 8d.
for lamps as above situated.
The number of gullies in the Parish is 2077.
East Division 984
West Division 1093
A very considerable improvement has been partly carried out, in
the widening of Huntingdon Street, which, when completed, the width
of the Street will be 40 feet instead of 24 feet as formerly.
As regards the general condition of the Parish, I beg to state, that
the carriageway paving is in very good order, as the greater portion of