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improper materials, and submitted some specimens to the Building
Act Committee of the Metropolitan Board. I also attended before
a Committee of the House of Commons to give evidence as to
the necessity for an amendment of the Metropolitan Buildings
Act.
The contracts for the removal of dust were carried out by
the same parties as in 1876, and at the same price, Mr. Iszard
removing from his district 9,633 loads, and Mr. Larter 8,990
loads, between the 25th of March, 1877, to the same day in
1878. The cost for cartage at the price per load agreed upon
was £2,518 14s. 4d., the wages of the men (not including the
drivers) employed in removing it from the houses to the carts
was £480 10s., and the inspector's salary, £78, making a total of
£3,077 4s. 4d., to which must be added the hire of carts, £117,
and the cost of shovels and baskets, £20 14s., making
£3,214 18s. 4d., from which there has to be deducted
£179 16s. 3d., payable by Mr. Button in accordance with his
agreement with the Board making a nett cost of £3,035 2s. \d.
As the amount payable by Mr. Button would not be paid during
the current year, the nett cost will not correspond with the sum
returned in the accounts, as they show the sums actually paid
and received.
The number of nuisances abated are appended at the end of
the report, and it will be seen that 1,380 nuisances arising from
various defects in drainage, or from choked drains and privy
pans were attended to. That there were 3,314 nuisances caused
by defects in houses or the adjoining premises, exclusive of
drainage, viz.: 323 from defective paving of the yards, 462 from
the want of proper dust bins, 2,271 from defective, dirty, or
dilapidated houses, and 254 from defective water supply
apparatus. There were also 813 houses disinfected, 26 cases of
overcrowding abated, 45 pigsties removed, 161 accumulations
of manure and other similar refuse removed, 2791 requests to take
away dust were attended to, as well as a number of nuisances of