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Libraries and the Voluntary and Municipal Hospitals. A few
copies were also sent to L.C.C. Schools for teaching purposes.
There was no cost to the Council as the advertisements of local
tradesmen defrayed expenses. At the end of the year the issue
was discontinued as the publishers were unable to obtain sufficient
advertisements to make the Lambeth issue an economic proposition,
and the Borough Council decided not to give the financial assistance
required.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Public Cleansing.
House refuse is collected weekly but in certain streets more
often for special reasons. All refuse, both house and street, is
loaded into barges and taken 40 miles down the Thames to
Mucking, where it is systematically buried under a layer of earth
with turf, first removed and then replaced over the refuse.
There has been no alteration during the year in the arrangements
for Public Cleansing.