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Vestry of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch
IN THE COUNTY OF LONDON.
INSPECTOR DOUGHTY'S REPORT.
Lighting Department,
26th March, 1893.
Gentlemen,
PUBLIC STREET LIGHTING.
I beg to present the following report and tables showing the work done by
this department, and the operation of the average meter system during the
fifteenth year of its operation.
The average meter system was adopted by the Vestry in the year 1877,
and previously to that date the cost of public lighting was defrayed under the
''contract system."
The price of gas supplied to the public lamps during the year was 2/2 per
1000 cubic feet, the number of meters distributed throughout the parish is 68, the
reading of the indices is taken once a month in the presence of an inspector of the
Gas Light and Coke Company.
The meters are all periodically cleaned and repaired, they are also tested and
stamped by an inspector appointed by the London County Council, according to
the Sales of Gas Act, 1878.
The total net payment for gas, lamplighters' wages, lighting, extinguishing,
and cleaning, materials, and wages for repairs, painting, &c., for the year, including
263 improved lamps of increased illuminating power, fixed at refuges and in
positions were increased light was required, and the provision of 9 additional
lamps and fittings and 24 new columns, was £5,384 9s. 4d.
The average cost per ordinary lamp for the year was £2 18s. 2½d., 14 additional
ordinary lamps have been fixed and put in lighting during the year. 5 have
been discontinued and the positions of 7 re-arranged.