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Metropolitan Board of Works; of the provisions of the Food
Adulteration Act and the Artizans' Dwellings Act, and also of
some of the clauses in the Public Health Act. The Committee
also devoted a large amount of time to the consideration of the
deposits of dust, house, and other refuse in the District, and
brought up a report thereon containing recommendations which
were agreed to by the Board. They also brought up a report, on
your reference, as to the necessity for another mortuary in the
vicinity of the Lea, in consequence of a letter received from the
Chief Commissioner of Police, and also made some improvements
in the old mortuary.
The mode in which the dust should be removed in the
District has received earnest consideration, and it was determined
to recommend that the present arrangements be continued for
another year, and to ask you to refer the matter again to the
Committee for report as to any or what alterations in their
opinion should be made for the year 1876-7. Advertisements
were therefore issued for tenders for the removal of the dust at
per load and at per day, the contractor to find horse, cart, implements,
and one man for each cart. The lowest tender, that of
Mr. Devon, was accepted, at 2s. 4d. per load against 2s. 9d. for
the previous year, but unfortunately Mr. Devon did not fully
carry out his contract, so that Mr. Iszard was employed to
assist, and the difference in price charged to Mr. Devon, therefore
an amount of £77 9s. 9d. was stopped from his payments.
The total number of loads removed was 19,387, being a somewhat
larger proportion per house than in 1874. The total cost came
to £2779 2s. 1d., of which £2276 16s. 7d. were paid to the
contractors, and £433 16s. 6d. to the men engaged by the
Board to assist in the removal. The total was about £64 less
than the sum paid in 1874-5. The number of loads removed in
1873-4 was 16,091; in 1874-5 it was 17,427, and in 1875-1876,
19,387 loads. The reduction in the price of coals as compared
with 1874-5 accounts to a certain extent for the increase; but
the additional number of houses, especially in Stoke Newington,
has been the chief cause of the increase. The complaints of non-