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consume 8 feet per hour; 23 regulated to consume 12 feet per hour;
64 18-inch Victoria lamps regulated to consume 15 feet per hour; 3
regulated to consume 16 feet per hour; 1 60-candle power lamp
consuming 20 feet per hour; 4 80-candle power lamps consuming 24
feet per hour ; 3 consuming 30 feet per hour; 24 100-candle power
consuming 33 feet per hour, 1 180-candle power consuming 50 feet per
hour, and 1 200-candie power consuming 58 feet per hour.
The annual cost of gas, lighting and maintenance of 12 lamps under
railway arches, and 3 in Great Eastern Street amounting to £44 4s.
has been paid by the North London Railway Company and the owners
of three lamps in Great Eastern Street.
The sum of £13 6s. has been recovered from persons causing
damage to lamps by driving against them, or by projections on their
vehicles, £1 7s. 6d. has been paid to the police and others for reporting
particulars, and £1 for detecting persons, and prosecuting persons for
wilfully damaging and extinguishing the public lamps.
During the months of October, November, December, and March,
lamps were lighted in the daytime for a period of 13¾ hours, on account
of the foggy weather.