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SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
LIGHTING DEPARTMENT.
April, 1884,
Gentlemen,
In submitting the following tables shewing the work
done by this Department, and the operation of the Average Meter
System during the sixth year, I beg to say that the price of gas
supplied to the Public Lamps has been reduced twice during the
year, the present price is 2/8 per 1000 cubic feet.
The total cost of gas, lighting, extinguishing, cleaning,
repairs, painting and maintenance for the year, including 59
improved lamps of greater illuminating power fixed at refuges is
£5,575 16s. 3d., or £3 9s. 0½d. per ordinary lamp. The total
number of lamps in use is 1,503; 2 are of 200 candle power, 24 of
100 candle power, 2 of 60, 3 of 30, 6 18-inch Victoria lamps with
govornors and burners regulated to consume 15 cubio feet per hour,
18 14-inch ordinary lamps fitted with governors and burners regulated
to consume 8 cubic feet per hour, 4 regulated to consume 6.9
cubic feet per hour, and 1,444 14-in(;h ordinary lamps with governors
and burners regulated to consume 4.6 cubic feet per hour, the
annual oost, amounting to £44 3s. 7d., for lighting and maintenance
of 13 lamps is paid for by railways and theatres, opposite theatres,
and situated under railway arches.
During the year 65 new lamps have been fixed and put in
lighting, 26 discontinued, and 52 removed to more favourable
positions, 2 now refuges with improved lamps and columns have
boon erected, one near to the Rosemary Branch Bridge with a