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Street Cleansing.
The cleansing of the public carriage-ways was performed
by a staff of men employed by the Board, consisting of
1 foreman, 3 gangers, and 31 sweepers. Two sweeping
machines, drawn by horses, were used in sweeping the
paved carriage-ways.
The street sweepings were carted away by contract, and
amounted to a total of 10,570 loads.
The carriage-ways of High Holborn, New Oxford Street,
Little Queen Street, High Street, Hart Street, and Great
and Little St. Andrew Streets, were washed on several
occasions during the year by means of watering-carts and
the machine brooms.
The cost of the washing is included in the two items of
cost for street cleansing and street watering given hereafter.
Terms of Contract.
The contracts for scavenging, dusting, and street watering,
and for the supply of materials, have heretofore been
let by the Board annually, for terms expiring at Michaelmas
in each year. The Annual Accounts of the Board,
being by statute terminable at Lady Day, the Board considered
it desirable to alter the letting of its contracts so
that they should terminate at the same date as the financial
year, and accordingly advertised for tenders for a term
firstly of eighteen months from Michaelmas, 1881, to Lady
Day, 1883, and resolved to revert to the system of annual
contracts after the latter date.
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