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In my last year's report I announced the fact that a weekly
house to house collection had been on trial during the greater part
of the year, with encouraging results. The system has been continued
since with increasing success; not only have large accumulations of
house refuse become rare in the parish, but the number of requests
by householders to remove dust has decreased to an almost in.
signicant number.
The requests, which in the year 1894 were 893, declined in the
year 1895, to 552, and last year to 297. I am hopeful that this
number will further lessen during 1897; but it can hardly be expected
that requests will entirely vanish, for on very rainy days the dustmen
are unable to conplete their allotted rounds, and on Bank
Holidays they do not, of course, visit. The following table gives the
number of requests distributed through the last three years.
TABLE I.—A List of the requests for the removal of Dust, received
during the three years, ending December, 31st, 1896, viz., 1894, 1895,
and 1896.
1894
1895
1896
January
136
89
37
February
48
41
17
March
85
53
30
April
97
66
46
May
55
73
22
June
72
46
39
July
63
31
18
August
56
23
12
September
58
38
24
October
73
27
21
November
94
39
14
December
46
26
17
Totals
893
552
297
The above two events are the cause of some of the requests, but
not all; a large number is due to the refusals of house.holders or
their servants to allow the dustmen to remove it at their weekly
visit. During the year 1896 a record was kept of these refusals to
allow the dust to be removed. I give below a summary of this.