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third 3,496, or 12.9 per cent.; and in the fourth 8,422, or 31.1 per
cent. The two mean quarters together were 5,732, or 21.1 per cent.,
and the two extreme quarters were 15.049. or 55.6 per cent.
For the purpose of contrasting the work of the different contractors,
we may also point out that Messrs. Jackson and Son, who dusted
ward x with 4,844 houses, had 4,625 applications, or 95.4 per cent. ;
Mr. W. Winn, with ward 2, containing 3,412 houses, had 3,115
applications, or 91.2 per cent.; Mr. W. T. Williamson, with ward
4, containing 3,253 houses, had 2,588 applications, or 79.5 percent.;
and Mr. W. Irons, with wards 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8, containing 15,570
houses, had 10,453 applications, or67.1 percent., the per centage of
each of these five last wards taken separately being 77.0 per
cent, for ward 3 ; 88.4 per cent, for ward 5 ; 96.7 per cent, for ward
6; 50.5 per cent, for ward 7; and again both the last and least 38.4
per cent, for ward 8, as against the 21.1 per cent, of the same ward
during the previous year, when it was comparatively so well dusted
by Messrs. J. and A. Stroud,
Penalties amounting to £129 were inflicted by your Sanitary
Committee upon the contractors during the year, Messrs. Jackson
and Son beingfined £20, Mr. W. Winn, £27, Mr. W. T. Williamson,
£35, with one ward each, and Mr. W. Irons being fined £47, with
the other five wards.
As the general question of the Dusting of the Parish has been
so fully and exhaustively treated in my former reports, and in that
of my immediate predecessor, I do not propose upon this occasion
to continue the discussion which has not been in vain as it has,
I believe, been the means of securing the practical attention of many
to the necessity of opening up sources of relief from the burden of
systematic neglect upon the part of so many of the contractors.
Writing as late as I am obliged to, I may here congratulate the