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in, until some time after the Tottenham sewage has been
carried into the Hackney and Metropolitan Sewers.
Removal of Bust.—The number of loads of dust removed
during the year ending March 25th, 1887, was 28,462 against
27,233 in 1885-6, showing an increase of more than 1,000
loads. As the winter has been very long, the cold weather
continuing through the whole of March, this might have been
expected, although there had been a large increase in 1885-6 as
compared with former years. The distict is divided in three
divisions, with a Contractor for each, Mr. Iszard works the
A division at 2s. 3d. per load, and removed 8,778 loads of dust;
Mr. Potter took away 10,097 loads from the B division at 2s.
per load; and Mr. Stevens removed 9,587 loads from the
C division at 2s. 6d. per load. The prices varied according to
distance of the divisions from shoots on the banks of, or beyond,
the River Lee; and the excess in the number of loads was
distributed pretty equally over all the divisions, the largest
proportion being moved from the C division, which includes
Dalston, De Beauvoir Town, and Shacklewell. The sum paid
to Mr. Iszard was £987 10s. 6d. ; to Mr. Potter £1,009 4s. 6d.,
and to Mr. Stevens £1,198 7s. 6d. Each Contractor provides
the carts, horses, and implements, as well as one man for each
cart, who drives and has charge of the horse and cart, although
he is, when outside the stables, under the control of the Board's
Dust Inspector. The Board provides a man for each subdivision
to assist in loading the carts, and men to check the
loads delivered at each of the Contractor's shoots. The various
items of expenditure were as follows :—Paid to the Dust
Contractors, £3,195 12s. 0d.; to the men engaged by the
Board, £718 9s. 4d. (against £747 0s. 3d. last year) and to the
Inspector, as salary, £104 12s. 0d. The Contractor's find their
own shoots, subject to my approval, if within the district; and
have had, so I am informed, to pay for the same, instead of
receiving money for the dust as in most former years. The