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Scavenging.
The arrangement which I was enabled to make last
spring with the Great Eastern Railway Company, for
taking the slop and refuse, carted from the roads of our
Hamlet, has been most advantageous. The Company
have taken our slop for nearly the whole of the year,
and have been enabled to dispose of it readily up to
this time. The Vestry constructs stanks to receive
the slop, and load the material into the Company's
trucks, when it is of about the consistency of cheese.
During the year 11,319 yards of slop and dry
sweepings have been taken to Devonshire Street Railway
Station.
The cost for cartage
has been
£ s. d. s. d.
1056 5 0 or 1 10½ per yard.
For trimming and
loading into the
Company's trucks.
115 13 0 or 0 2½ per yard.
£1271 18 0
Being a saving of £224 18s. upon the outlay of last year
for the same work.
Watering.
During the summer months the water carts were
employed on 109 days, at a cost of £552 1s. 4d. for
horses, carts, and drivers, and £369 1s. 6d. for
9,170,000 gallons of water.
Lighting.
The lighting of the Hamlet is done by the Commercial
Gas Company, who light 742 lamps. The
cost of lighting and maintenance to the Vestry was
£3265 4s. 10d.
No complaint has been made during the year,
either of the quality or quantity of the gas supplied.