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requests to remove dust and refuse during the year; and
comparatively few of the letters contained complaints of neglect,
the majority being simple requests for removal. Many of the
complaints arose from the dustmen refusing to remove trade
refuse, which they were justified in doing. There were 3734
requests for dust removal in 1871, against 2603 in 1872, and
very many more complaints of non-removal or of incivility on
the part of the men. The total cost for the year was £2291
16s. 4d., which was a little in excess of the lowest tender at a
lump sum. The contract accepted was that of Mr. Iszard's, at
2s. 5d. per load, Mr. Iszard providing cart, horse, baskets, ladder
and shovel, and also a man for each cart, who was responsible
to the contractor for the cart, horse, and implements. Mr.
Iszard was also prohibited from shooting the refuse in this
district, except in such places as I sanctioned. The smallest
number of carts employed was 11, and the largest, 22; the
smallest number of men was 9, and the greatest, 14. As there
are now above 19,600 inhabited houses in the district, and
16,192 loads were removed, there was much less than a load per
house of ashes and house refuse in the year.
On the 4th of June P. H. Holland, Esq., attended here to
hold enquiry as to whether or not a further limitation of burials
was needed in the Hackney District. At Mr. Holland's request
a notice had been previously sent to the Revs. T. O. Groodchild,
rector of Hackney, R. D. Tyssen, rector of South Hackney,
T. Jackson, rector of Stoke Newington, W. Baird, vicar of
Homerton, and Mr. Whitehead, minister of the Unitarian
Church, Paradise Place. The Revs. W. Baird and T. Jackson
sent letters of apology. The Rev. T. O. Groodchild attended
also the sextoness. Mr. Martin stated that as regards the grave
yard of St. John at Hackney, there existed considerable doubt
n the public mind as to the manner in which the "Orders in