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The number of loads of mud, fee., removed, was 1,578 in 1886
and 1,512 this year.
The cost of carting only will amount to £189.
Whenever gullies are cleansed disinfectants arc used, and they
are also plentifully sprinkled about gullies and the ventilators to
the sewers during the summer months.
General Carting.
Vestry's Horses.
Hired Horses.
Total.
Whole Days.
Half Days.
Whole Days.
Half Days.
1886
1,137
12
399
2
1,543
1887
1,294
2
482
52
1,803
The cost at 10s. a day per horse will equal £901 10s.
Flushing.
The Flushing of Sewers and Gullies has occupied 71 days, and
cost for water, £148 4s. 6d. The number of days (8 hours a day)
last year was 51.
Watering Roads.
The charges for water for watering roads in 1886 was as
ollows:—
Company.
Area
in yards.
Quantity in
Gallons
Price.
Cost.
Cost
perlOO
yards
West Middlesex
"Water Co.
11 Hydrants
133,000
4,507,450
Is. per
1,000 gals.
2s. 2d. each
£
s.
d.
s.
d.
225
7
5
23
2
0
Chelsea
"Water Co.
18 Hydrants
114,500
No return
Total
£248
9
5
3
81/4
5s. per
100 yards
286
5
0
27
0
0
Total
£813
5
0
5
5½
Cost of water for 1886, £561 14s. 5d.