DEATH BY SODIUM
Public feeling against the hideous colour of sodium and fluorescent light has become almost as strong as that against the ill-designed concrete standards from which they depend. The Mill Hill Preservation Society, with a large mem- bership, has been protesting without any effect against its borough council's (Hendon) proposals to string this leafy outpost of Middlesex with concrete gallows and sodium. Its annual report publishes figures supplied by the lighting officer of the British Electrical Development Association which should encourage those who rightly feel strongly against corpse lights which take colour from everything to make representations to their newly elected councils. Protests can now be made on financial grounds against the expense of sodium and fluorescent. The new colour-corrected mercury light, which does not take the colour from buildings and which may be seen along the fronts at Brighton and Hove, can be fitted into old lamp standards and requires neither a lunch basket nor a pig trough to contain it.
Annual Cost £3 16s. 0d. £4 6s. 9d. £4 05. 6d. £3 1Is. 9d.
These figures refer to an ordinary residential road, and the annual cost of a column includes capital cost, loan charges, installation and running costs. Lumens are the measure of a lamp's light output. Tungsten is what we mean by ordinary electric light.
Colour-corrected Fluorescent Sodium Tungsten mercury
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Lumens .. 2320 .. 2720 .. 2200 .. 1970
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