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Covered vans are used for the collection, and the refuse is taken to Mead's wharf on Paddington-basin
where it is separated by machinery into its constituent parts; the cinders, ash, soft core,
being loaded into barges alongside, and the paper and lighter matters burnt in a special furnace on the
wharf. The manipulation and the loading of the refuse is said to be completed during one day, and no
refuse is as a rule kept on the premises.
Marylebone.—The Vestry employ two contractors, viz., Messrs. Hobbs and Mead, for the collection
and disposal of the house refuse of the parish. The contract stipulates for a collection to be made from
premises as follows—
(1.) Daily in some of the main thoroughfares, e.g., Oxford-street, Regent-street, Edgware
road.
(2.) Twice or three times a week from certain institutions, as the Middlesex hospital, the
workhouse, &c.
(8.) Once a week in the rest of the district.
Covered vans are used for the collection, and the dust is conveyed to the wharves of Messrs.
Hobbs and Messrs. Mead on Paddington-basin, where it is sorted and sifted by machinery.
Hampstead.—A weekly collection of house refuse is made by the sanitary authority, but
it is not customary to make a house-to-house call in every part of the district. The carts
are provided with tarpaulin covers. A dust destructor has been erected at the Vestry's wharf on the
Grand Junction Canal. This contains eight cells, but is only large enough to consume about two-thirds
of the whole amount of the parish house refuse. Sorting and sifting by hand of some of the refuse is
therefore carried on to a small extent at the wharf by a contractor who employs some two or three
women and a few men for the work. The fine ash obtained in the process is barged away, the breeze is
used for stoking the cremator, and the soft core is burnt in the destructor.
Pancras.—Contractors are employed by the Vestry for the collection and disposal of the house
refuse. A weekly call is made at every house in the district; lists are thus obtained of the premises
from which it is necessary to remove the refuse, and these lists are handed to the contractor each
day before starting on his round.
At the date of enquiry the dust collected in the east, west, and south wards was being taken to
railway sidings at Kentish-town, Tufnell-park, and King's-cross, where it was loaded direct into trucks
for removal to the country. The refuse collected in the north ward is taken to Williamson's brickfields,
near Green-lanes. The Vestry have obtained a site adjacent to the Regent's Canal, where a destructor
is about to be erected.
Islington.—The collection is made by the sanitary authority. Every street in the district is
perambulated three times a week, and a call made at those premises where the removal of the house
dust is required. Cards bearing the letter D have been supplied to householders, stating the days upon
which the dust vans pass through each street, and notifying that a call will be made at those houses at
which the card is exhibited. The collection is made in vans provided with tarpaulins, and the dust is
conveyed to—
(1.) The Vestry's wharf on the City basin of the Regent's Canal, where it is tipped direct
into barges and removed to the country.
(2.) Ashburton-grove railway siding, Tufnell-park railway siding, and York-road railway
siding, where it is loaded direct into trucks.
The screening of ashes from the refuse at Ashburton-grove depot has now been discontinued.
Hackney.—Since enquiry was first made this district has been divided into the Hackney and
Stoke Newington parishes, and the arrangements for dust collection have undergone alteration. In
Hackney parish two contractors are employed to collect the house refuse, and it is customary to call only
at those premises in the parish at which an indication is given that the householder requires the removal
of the house refuse, but all streets in the district are visited by the dust carts once a week on regular
days. It is proposed however to make a call at all houses once in each week in future.
Covered carts are used for the collection, and the refuse is taken to—
(1.) A wharf on Kingsland-basin, Regent's Canal, and there sorted and sifted prior to
removal by barge (see Bethnal-green.)
(2.) To shoots situated outside the county.
Stoke Newington.—The Vestry employ a contractor to collect the house dust of the parish once
a week. Each street is visited on a specified day, but only those houses are called at from which the
removal of house refuse is required. Uncovered carts are in use. The dust is taken to Tottenham,
where it is utilised for the purpose of brick-making.
St. Giles.—A contractor is employed by the Board of Works for the collection and disposal of the
house refuse of the district.
A weekly call is made at all houses by an inspector of the sanitary authority, and lists thus
obtained of those premises from which it is necessary to remove the refuse. These lists are supplied
daily to the contractor's foreman. The dust carts pass through each street in the district twice a week
on regular days, but the main thoroughfares are visited, and the dust collected, daily.
A second visit is made by an inspector of the authority to see that the refuse has been removed
from each house, t
Covered vans are used to convey the refuse to the contractor's yard in Tinworth-street, Lambeth,
where it is sorted and sifted before removal.
St. Martin-in-the-Fields.—The sanitary authority collect the house refuse in this district. The
collection is made—
(1.) Daily from premises in the main thoroughfares.
(2.) Twice or thrice weekly from some premises.
(3.) A weekly call is made at all other houses.
The dust-carts are provided with tarpaulin covers, and convey the refuse to Gabriel's wharf,
Commercial-road, Lambeth, where it is tipped direct to barges and removed to brickfields in Kent and
Essex.