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SAINT LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
LIGHTING DEPARTMENT.
April, 1886.
Gentlemen,
I beg herewith to submit the following report and tables
showing the work done by this Department, and the operation of
the Average Meter System during the eighth year.
The price of gas supplied to the Public Lamps has not been
reduced during the year the charge per 1,000 cubic feet is 2/6.
The total amount paid for gas, lighting, extinguishing,
cleaning, repairs, painting and maintenance for the year, including
116 improved lamps of greater illuminating power, fixed at
refuges and positions where more light was necessary, is
£5,355 14s. 6d., being £30 1s. 4d. less than last year; or
£3 1s. 0¼d. per ordinary lamp. Nine new ordinary lamps have
been fixed and put in lighting during the year, 6 discontinued, 22
removed to more favourable positions, and 39 changed for improved
lamps. One new refuge with improved lamp and column has been
erected in the Hyde Road, at its junction with Penn Street and
Northport Street, and fitted with a Sugg's 80-candle power lamp.
The total number of lamps now in use is 1,543; 2 of which are
200-candle power, 25 of 100-candle power, 4 of 80, 1 60, 3 40, 53
18-inch Victoria lamps, with governors regulated to 15-feet per
hour each, 5 16-inch lamps and 19 14-inch, fitted with governors
and burners, regulated to consume 8-ft. per hour each, 4 regulated
to 6.9-ft. per hour, and 1427 14-inch ordinary lamps with
governors and burners, regulated to consume 4.6-ft. per hour.
The annual cost of lighting and maintenance of 14 lamps paid
for by Railway Companies and Theatres, situated under railway