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streets and roads have had careful attention, and such
recommendations as the several cases required have been
forwarded to the Council.
Dust Collecting.
22. In order to comply as far as possible with the
requirements of the Public Health (London) Act, it has
been found necessary to increase the number of collectors,
and when complaints of non-removal of dust and refuse have
been received, they have been promptly dealt with from
time to time.
23. In consequence of the increasing difficulty experienced
in disposing of the dust and refuse collected daily,
the question of the erection of a destructor, as opposed to
the schemes of sending away the refuse by rail and barge
has occupied considerable time and serious attention, and
at the present time, the facts and figures obtained at the cost
of much enquiry point to the adoption of a destructor as
likely to prove the most satisfactory and economical method
of solving this difficulty, the preliminary measure of securing
a suitable site with the minimum of opposition from
neighbouring residents having yet to be satisfactorily
arranged.
Gas Lighting.
24. There are now 443 public gas lamps in the Parish,
the same being lighted, cleansed, and generally maintained
by the South Metropolitan Gas Co. in a satisfactory manner
manner at contract prices.