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with hand labour on the top. The cost of the destructor
up to date, including land, buildings, machinery, hoppers,
lighting streets and paving streets abutting thereon, is
£10,023. The amount borrowed was £10,000. The
cost of the electric light installation is £475 6s. lid., and
owing to the improved method of making up roads, the
sum apportioned to Blackshaw Road is £58 10s. in excess
of the amount originally allowed, so that the works as
per original scheme have been erected and equipped at the
estimated cost.
In the Parish of Streatham, the cost of scavenging
has been £9,362 l8s. 10d. (including £784 5s. 10d.
for snow removal), made up as follows, viz.:—
£ s. d.
Wages 5,673 4 4
Brooms, Tools, &c. 342 4 5
Horse hire 502 10 1
Contracts for cartage and disposal of slop .. 2,845 0 0
£9,362 18 10
In the Parish of Tooting, the cost of scavenging has
been £939 17s. 9d. (including £37 12s. 7d. for snow
removal), made up as follows, viz.:—
£ s. d.
Wages 592 5 6
Horse hire 8 6 3
Brooms, Tools, &c. 9 6 0
Contract for cartage and disposal of slop 330 0 0
£939 17 9
In the Parish of Wandsworth, the collection
and disposal of house refuse were satisfactorily carried
out under contract by Mr E. King for the sum of
£2,895 10s. 2d. Most of the house refuse collected