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The annual cost of gas, lighting, and maintenance of 15 lamps
paid for by Railway Companies and Theatres, etc., situated under
railway arches, opposite theatres, and two in Great Eastern Street,
amounts to £46 10s. 10d.
On several occasions during the winter, it has boon necessary to
light the lamps before the regular time, amounting to 7 hours
extra time per lamp.
During the winter the lamplighters were provided with
overcoats by the Vestry, at a cost of £31 10s. 7d. for 18 coats, these
are to last for two years.
PUBLIC UllINALS.
One new urinal of iron, partly lined with plate glass one inch
thick and to accommodate two persons, lias been erected during
the year in Nil Street, between Alma and Bookham Streets, by
Macfarlane & Co., at a cost of £50 Is. 0d., including gas fittings,
plumbers' and masons' work.
The urinals, 32 in number, were cleaned and painted in the
summer, by men employed by the Vestry, for the purpose; the cost
for paint, labour and tools, amounted to £37 12s. lid.
The sum of £256 9s. 2d. was paid to the Water Companies for
water supplied to the urinals, and rent of meters during the year.
The sum of £8 10s. 0d. was paid during the year for repairs to
urinals.
The cost of providing and fixing enamelled iron tablets to
urinals, to caution people against sticking bills or damaging the
urinals, was £12 13s. 0d.
FLUSHING COURTS AND GULLIES.
The cost of flushing courts and gullies with water direct from
the main through a 25-inch hose,—the East London Company's
being done in the daytime, and the New River Company's District
in the night time—was for water £265 8s. 4d., and £65 19s. 6d.
for labour, new leather hose and dubbing £19 9s. 0d., chloride
of lime £12 7s. 7d.