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district of the Board, or to some spot where the Medical
Officer can certify it to be not injurious to health, for
the sum of £1,265 a year for 3 years; this is £315 in
excess of the cost of the previous year. The cost per
house per annum is now about 3s. 5d. The rota system
of collection adopted three years ago is still in satisfactory
operation, and the whole time of a dust inspector is
employed in watching over the collection, and reporting
to the office daily all complaints, refusals, and requests
of the householders, and the defaults of the contractor.
The work for scavenging includes the emptying of the
road gullies and the scrapiner and sweeping of all the
parish roads, which is done by roadmen in the employ
of the Board. The loading and carting of such cleansings
have been let by contract to Mr. D. Childs, in Ward No.
1 for the sum of £195 per annum for 3 years, and in
Wards Nos. 2 and 3 to Mr. G. Neal for 3 years for the
sum of £900; per annum this is an increase of £150 on
the previous year's cost.
In the Parish of Tooting the removal of dust and
house-refuse has been carried out by Mr. H. J. Santer
under a three years' contract terminating 25th March,
1895, at a cost of £81. The work of emptying the road
gullies and the scraping, sweeping, and heaping of the
road cleansings is performed by the roadmen in the
employ of the Board, and the carting away of such
cleansings has been carried out by Mr. H. J. Santer
under a three years' contract terminating 25th March,
1895, at a cost of £81.
In the Parish of Wakdrwoeth the collecting and
removal of dust and house-refuse was carried out by contract
with Mr. Hudson for two years terminating on the
25th day of March, 1893, at £957 per annum. A dusting
inspector has been appointed during the past year to
superintend the work of collection.