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out the intervention of contractors ; but the new system is too
recent to enable us to speak with confidence of results, though
these I am satisfied will be all that the parishioners could desire,
provided the work is carried out methodically. I am of opinion
that the parish should be mapped out into districts of convenient
size, and that a call should be made at every house in
each district on a given day. If dust-bins are made proper
use of, it will not be found necessary to remove their contents
more frequently than once a week. If the weekly call is made,
and, whatever the reason, the men are not permitted to take
away the refuse, the householder would be exclusively responsible
for any inconvenience that might arise. All the arrangements
would be dislocated by an attempt to go over the same ground
twice in one week in order to attend to " complaints." The
statistics that follow relate exclusively to the contractors year ended
March 25th, during which 4,571 communications with reference
to the removal of dust were received, viz., 2,022 from the North and
2549 from the South contract district. The gross numbers in the
two preceding years were (1874) 6,000, and (1875) 4,775. The
actual complaints of non-removal in 1876 were 85, viz., 34 in the
North and 51 in the South. (The numbers in 1874-5 were
1,010 and 223) The orders issued to the contractors for
the removal of dust, principally as the result of inspections,
were 9,247. I cannot conclude this part of my report without
an expression of satisfaction with the zeal and industry with
which Dust Inspector Gaylard has conducted this portion of his
duties. To his appointment, which your Vestry made on my
request two years ago, I attribute most satisfactory results, and I
am glad to know that the experience he has acquired in the
Sanitary department has proved of essential service in the organization
of the new system.
NON-REMOVAL OF MANURE.
I referred at length to this subject in my last Annual Report;
and I recur to it now to urge again a suggestion I then made,
viz., that as your Vestry have the power under sec. 95 of 25th
and 26th Vic., cap. 102, to collect and remove stable manure,
with the consent of the owners thereof, it would be advisable
to exercise that power, inasmuch as the addition of the dung,
&c., to ashes, &c., would increase the manurial value of the
latter, and thus enable your Vestry to obtain a good price for
the parish refuse Many owners of horses would gladly be relieved
of the trouble of removing the manure, which is often not inconsiderable
at certain seasons of the year. In other cases your
Vestry might reasonably insist on the "regulations with respect to
the removal of manure, &c., from mews, stables, and other like
places," being strictly carried out, viz., by the receptacles being