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The Vestry of the Parish of St. Leopard,
IN THE COUNTY OF LONDON.
INSPECTOR DOUGHTY'S REPORT.
Lighting Department,
25th March, 1892.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the following report and tables showing the work done by this
department, and the operation ol the Average Meter System during the fourteenth year
of its operation.
No increase in the price of gas supplied to the public lamps has been made during
the year, which remains at 2/2 per 1,000 cubic feet.
The lamplighters' wages were increased in December last from 23/- to 25/- per
week, and the lamp repairer and fitter's wages from 27/- to 30/- per week.
The total net payment for gas, lamplighters' wages, lighting, extinguishing, and
cleaning, materials and wages for repairs, painting etc. for the year, including 258
improved lamps of increased illuminating power fixed at refuges and positions where
more light was required, and the provision of 21 additional lamps and fittings is
=£5,823 18s. 8d., being £239 l6s. 0d. more than last year, which is due to the additional
lamps fixed and the increased time of burning during foggy weather.
The average cost per ordinary lamp for the year was £2 18s. 10½. Two large
lamps and 27 new ordinary lamps have been fixed and put in lighting during the year,
8 have been discontinued and 23 removed to more favourable positions.