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Five lighted by the Chartered Gas Company under the Railway 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 £4552 9s. 8d. for the year,
after deducting the £36 1s. 8d. which the North London Railway
Company contributed for lamps as above situated.
The number of gullies in the parish is 2080.
East Division 987
West Division 1093
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
it is composed of new work; there are a few places which must, before
long be repaved, such as—
High Street, Shoreditch, (from Bateman's Row to
the Boundary).
And Hoxton Street (portions of).
The footways are mostly in an unsatisfactory and dilapidated condition,
and the repairs during the year having been very slight, I fear
that unless some of the worst places are repaved, and that very shortly,
they will become dangerous. The course I would recommend would be,
to repave those footways in the thoroughfares of larger traffic with new
stone, using such of the old material as is fit for places of less traffic.
The condition of the sewerage is very satisfactory, the sewers being
comparatively free from deposit, and there are but few places without
that most necessary of sanitary requirements.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
G. C. PERRETT,
Surveyor.
Town Hall,
June, 1872.