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Thus during the last nine months of 1894, the large number
of 621 requests were received by letter to remove the dust,
during the same period in 1895 the number declined to 361, but
during the whole of 1895 the weekly house visitation was made
by the dustmen, and in a very great number of instances the tenants,
for various reasons, mostly connected with convenience, refused to
allow the dustmen to remove the refuse. At the beginning of the
year no record was kept of these refusals, but at the beginning of
April, the du3tmen were instructed to furnish a return every week
of all such refusals. The number of refusals at houses, where
subsequent complaint of non-removal of dust was made during
the last nine months of 1895, was 192; so that the 361
requests noted above must be diminished by 192, which leaves
only 169 bona-fide instances of complaint. The experience of the
year shows, that on an average, one-fourth of the householders in the
parish weekly refuse to allow the dustmen to remove the house
refuse. The subjoined table shows the number of refusals
for the month of December of last year, but I have
reason to believe that householders are becoming