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DUSTING ACCOUNT.
The cost of removing and disposing of the house refuse for the
whole district of Hackney during the year 1893 was £3,032 5s. 4d.
for the "A" division; £3,319 0s. 9d. for the "B" division;
£2,769 7s. 6d. for the "C" division—the total for the three divisions
being £9,120 13s. 7d. From the "A" division, 17,536 loads (54
cubic feet each) at 8/6½ per load were removed; from the "B" division
15,619 loads at 4/3 per load; and from the "C" division, 14,772 loads
at 8/9 pei load—the total number of loads being 47,927, at an average
cost of 3/9½ per load. But in addition to the above sum paid to the
Contractors, the Board of Works expended £1,625 13s. 6d. in wages
to their dustman, thus bringing up the total cost for the year to
£10,746 7s. 1d.
For the year 1892, 48,012 loads of refuse were removed at an
average cost per load of 3/8, and a total cost, including the dustmen's
wages, of £10,071 19s. 7d. So that during the past year, although the
number of loads removed was less by 85 than in 1892, the total cost
has increased by £674 7s. 6d.
The experience of 1893 of increased cost of removal is only a
repetition of many previous years. Contractors account for this
increase by a loss of the market for breeze and fine ash and the
increased cost for "shoots" to deposit the refuse.
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The cost has now arrived at such a figure that the Vestry ought
seriously to consider whether this work of removal and disposal of the
house refuse might not be more cheaply and efficiently done by
employing their own labour.