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SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
To the Lighting Committee of the Vestry of Saint
Leonard, Shoreditch.
April, 1882.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the following tables shewing the
operation of the average meter system during the fourth year.
The total cost of gas, lighting and extinguishing, cleaning,
repairs, painting, and maintenance for the year is £5,304 3s. 6d., or
£3 15s. 3d. per lamp. The total number of lamps now in use is
1,424; 13 of which are paid for by railways and theatres.
During the year 25 additional ordinary lamps have been fixed and
put in lighting, 10 discontinued, and 21 removed from one position
to another. Four "Patent lamps" of larger dimensions and greater
lighting power than ordinary have been affixed on refuges; one of
Siemen's in High Street at entrance to Great Eastern Street, consuming
27 cubic feet of gas per hour; one of Siemen's fixed in High
Street crossing between Great Eastern Street and Commercial Street,
consuming 10 cubic feet per hour; one of Sugg's fixed in Leonard
Square, consuming 30 cubic feet per hour; and one of Bray's fixed
in Tabernacle Square, consuming 33 cubic feet per hour; these four
having been fixed as an experiment has resulted in the preference
being given to Bray's lamps, eleven more of which have been ordered
to be fixed and put in lighting in place of ordinary small ones. One
of 200 candle power, and ten each of 100 candle power, which are