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greatly increased price at which the new Contract for Dust
Removal has been accepted has lessened the strength of one
of the arguments in favour of this method of disposal.
On the whole, I believe, the day is rapidly approaching
when it will have to be considered whether a dust constructor
will not be the most satisfactory solution of the difficulty.
87. It was found that some house refuse was being deposited
in the South Metropolitan brickfield, within 300 yards of
houses, by the Vestry's Contractor. A prosecution was accordingly
instituted, with the result that the Company undertook
not to allow any more refuse to be deposited, and paid the
costs of the proceedings.
A small deposit also was found in Brookdene Road, but the
owner removed it when his attention was called to it.
88. Dust Collection.—There was no improvement in the
dust collection as regards method, it having been done, as
before, in a slovenly manner. As regards regularity it quite
broke down again at Christmas. Two hundred and sixty-one
complaints were received, during the year, of non-removal;
and, unfortunately, the poorer class of tenants, at whose
houses there is likely to be most harm from accumulation of
dust, do not usually send complaints. For the discovery of
neglect to collect from these we have to depend, in the absence
of a dust inspector, on the chance call of a sanitary inspector.
For some weeks after Christmas the Vestry had to supplement
the dust collection by direct labour, the organisation of
which mainly fell on the Chief Sanitary Inspector. The Contractor
having been mulcted in £132 2s. 7d. costs of work done,