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Vestry hall. These together give a total of 20,781 premises from
which dust was ordered to be removed in compliance with requests
from parishioners; so that including the 16,345, mentioned above,
the contractors were required in writing by your officers to remove
refuse from 37,126 premises, as compared with 27,838 and 26,804
in the two previous years.
Table No. XI. contains a summary of these 20,781 applications,
which are stated ward by ward, and quarter by quarter, for the twelve
months over which the contracts extended, viz. : from Lady Day,
1874, to Lady Day, 1875.
This total of 20,781 is by far the largest number received in one
year since a record has been kept, being 4,375 in excess of the 16,406
received in the previous year, and 6,597 in excess of the 14,184 of
the year before that.
The tabulated applications show that of the 20,781 requests, 6,627
were received during the first three months, and 8,422 during the
last three months, which were again followed by 11,594 received
during the first quarter of the current contracts, the weekly number
of the last named quarter frequently being over 1,000, and the
average weekly number being 884.9.
Taking the first anil the last quarters of the contract together, the
applications were 15,049, or rather more than five-sevenths of the
whole, as compared with 5,732, being rather less than two-sevenths
received during the intermediate six months.
Again following the standard adopted last year, it appears that
during the whole year the applications amounting to 20,781 were
equal to 76-7 per cent, of the total number of the inhabited houses
in the Parish, viz., 27,079.* In the first quarter there were 6,627,
equal to 24.5 per cent.; in the second 2,236, or 8.2 per cent. ; in the
*Vide Note to Table under review.