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during the year 1913, amounted to 39,516 tons 4 qrs. 14 lbs. During
the quarter ending March 31st the price paid by the Borough
Council to the contractors was 5s. 6|d. per ton for the North
Division and 5s. 6d. per ton for the South Division; during the
remainder of the year the prices were—for the North Division
4s. 9d., and for the South Division 5s. 5d. The total cost for this
removal for the whole year amounted to £10,307 12s. Id.
The total cost of destruction has been calculated by the
Electrical Engineer, who is in charge of the destructor, to be
£6,016 6s. 2d., thus bringing the total cost of removal and destruction
of refuse to £16,923 18s. 3d. Distributing this cost over the
estimated population of the Borough, it amounts to Is. 61d. per
head.
In the Appendix to this Report will be found a copy of a
report on the present system of removal of house refuse in the
Borough.
I give below a table showing the number of "refusals" and
"no answers" given to the dustmen at their weekly calls:—