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ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.
LIGHTING DEPARTMENT.
April, 1888.
Gentlemen.
I beg to submit the following report and tables shewing
the works done by this Department and the operation of the
Average Meter System during the tenth year.
The price of gas supplied to the Public lamps has been reduced
twice during the year from 2/6 per 1,000 cubic feet to 2/5 and from
the 1st. January last to 2/2 per 1,000 cubic feet.
The total amount paid for gas, lighting, extinguishing, cleaning
repairs, painting, and maintainence for the year, including II0 improved
lamps of greater illuminating power, is £5344 16s. 5d., or
£2 19s. IId., per ordinary lamp. Five new ordinary lamps and one
improved lamp have been fixed and put in lighting during the year
and eleven removed to more favourable positions.
The total number of lamps now in use is 1,566. 1,438 of which
are 14-inch ordinary lamps, fitted with governors, regulated to consume
4.6 feet per hour, 4 regulated to consume 6 9 feet per hour,
26 regulated to consume 8 feet per hour, 63 18-inch Victoria lamps
regulated to consume 15 feet per hour, 3 regulated to consume 16
feet per hour, I 60-candle power consuming 20 feet per hourj
4 80-candle power consuming 24 feet per hour, 25 100-candle
power consuming 33 feet per hour, and 2, 200-candle power consuming
58 feet per hour.