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SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
Lighting Department.
April, 1883.
To the General Purposes Committee.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the following tables showing the work
done by this department and the operation of the Average Meter
System during the fifth year.
The total cost of gas, lighting and extinguishing, cleaning,
repairs, painting and maintenance for the year, including 27 large
lamps of greater illuminating power, is £5652 12s. 10d., or
£3 14s. 7d. per ordinary lamp.
The total number of lamps now in use is 1464. 2 of which
are 200-candle power, 23 of 100-candle power, 1 of 60, 1 of 30,
and 1437 ordinary lamps, 8 of these are fitted with governors
regulated to consume 8 cubic feet per hour and 4 regulated to
consume 6.9 cubic feet per hour, the remainder at 4.6 cubic feet
per hour; 13 lamps are paid for by railways and theatres situated
under railway arches and opposite theatres.
79 new lamps have been fixed and put in lighting during the
year, 39 have been discontinued and 51 removed to more favourable
positions. 7 new refuges, having one lamp each, have been erected
during the year.