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from 26,571 premises, and there were also entries in respect to
removal from 10,296 premises, owing to personal applications which
were made at the Vestry Hall. These together give a total of
36,867 premises from which dust was ordered to be removed in
compliance with requests from parishioners; so that including the
16,257 mentioned above, the contractors were required, in writing,
by your officers, to remove refuse from 53,124 premises, as compared
with 37,126 and 27,838 in the two previous years.
Table No.XII. contains a summary of these 36,867 applications,
which are stated word by word, and quarter by quarter, for the
twelve months over which the contracts chiefly extend, viz.: from
Lady Day, 1875, to Lady Day, 1876. I say chiefly, because the
contract for Wards 6 and 8 terminated at the end of the first
six months, when the Vestry took up the work. To this latter
circumstance I shall again refer, but for the present I must continue
to deal with the numbers as a whole.
This enormous total of 36,867 is by a long way the largest
number of applications received in any one year since a record has
been kept, being 16,086 in excess of the 20,781 received in the
previous year; 20,461 in excess of the 16,406 of the year 1873-4;
and 22,683 in excess of the 14,184 of the year 1872-3, these
increasing tokens of neglect actually corresponding with the largely
increasing payments being made to the contractors, as will be seen
on reference to Table No.XIII.
The tabulated applications show that of the 36,867 requests,
11,594 were received during the first three months, or at the average
rate of about 890 each week, and 12,083 during the last three
months, or about 930 a week. The intermediate quarters show
6,881 and 6,309 respectively, or an average rate of about 530 and
485 in each week. The weekly average for the whole year was 708,
and the daily average 118.
Taking the first and last quarters together, the applications
were 23,677, or nearly two-thirds of the whole, as compared with
13,190, or rather more than one-third received during the second
and third quarters of the year.