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7
Scavenging.
Within the last three months, I have been enabled to
make an arrangement with the Great Eastern Railway
Company to the effect that the whole of the slop which
is accumulated on, and taken from, our roads shall be
shot in their yard, in Devonshire-street, or loaded into
trucks from the carts. By this means our men are
enabled to cart four loads per day from any part of the
Hamlet; and, in some cases, when the work has been
near to the station, as many as seven loads per day
have been carted instead of three, as in the case of the
slop having to be taken to Stratford.
The Railway Company take the sweepings to such
parts of their line as may be situated upon heavy clay soil,
where, I have no doubt, it will be found to materially
enhance the value of the land. It is taken in the empty
returned trucks, and all the Company look for, in the way
of payment from the person receiving it, is as much as
will pay for sending the trucks back when they are empty.
At present, the matter is only an experiment, but so far
the results have been most satisfactory, the stuff being
got rid of as soon as it is ready to move.
Should it be found practicable to adopt this mode of
disposing of the material during the whole winter, I
anticipate being able to report a considerable saving
in the cost of horse hire for the current year.
During the past year, no less a quantity than 11,867
yards of slop have been taken from the roads of the
Hamlet; this cost the sum of 2s. 6½d. per yard for
carting, and 3¾d. per yard for loading into the carts.