The management published an address in which it was stated that the gas-fittings would be entirely removed from the interior of the house, and safer methods of illumination resorted to.

In order to effect the necessary alterations the theatre was closed for a fortnight, during which the Covent Garden company appeared at the English Opera House, or Lyceum Theatre, and an address was issued on behalf of the widows of the men who had been killed by the explosion.
In due time, however, the world grew bolder on the subject, and gas reappeared upon the scene.

Some theatres, however (being probably restricted by the conditions of their leases), were very tardy in adopting the new system of lighting.

Mr.Benjamin Webster, in his speech in the year 1853, upon his resigning the management of the Haymarket Theatre after a tenancy of fifteen years, mentions, among the improvements he had originated during that period, that he had "introduced gas for the fee of L500 a-year, and the presentation of the centre chandelier to the proprietors." The employment of gas-lights in theatres was strenuously objected to by many people.

In the year 1829 a medical gentleman, writing from Bolton Row, and signing himself "Chiro-Medicus," addressed to a public journal a remonstrance on the subject.