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SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
LIGHTING DEPARTMENT.
April, 1885.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the following report and tables shewing
the work done by this Department, and the operation of the
Average Meter System during the seventh year.
The price of gas supplied to the public lamps has been
reduced from 2/8 to 2/6 per 1,000 cubic feet.
The total cost of gas, lighting, extinguishing, cleaning,
repairs, painting, and maintenance for the year, including 79
improved lamps of greater illuminating power, fixed at refuges and
positions, where more light was required, is £5,385 15s. 10d., being
£190 0s. 5d. less than last year, or £3 6s. 0½d. per ordinary
lamp.
During the year 39 new lamps have been fixed and put in
lighting, 5 discontinued, 11 changed for improved lamps, and 44
removed to more favourable positions. Three new refuges, with
improved lamps and columns have been erected, one near Whitmore
Road canal bridge with a Suggs 60-candle power lamp, one at the
junction of Shrubland and Marlborough Roads with a Sugg's
60-candle power lamp, and one in Great Eastern Street, opposite
the City bank, with a Sugg's 100-candle power lamp.
The total number of lamps now in use is 1,537; 2 are of
200-candle power, 25 of 100-candle power, 4 of 60, 3 of 40, 17
18-inch Victoria lamps with governors and burners, regulated to