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vans. In order to control this, after the dismissal of several dustmen
and the suspension of others, I resolved to appoint a second
Dust Superintendent, so that there would be a Superintendent to each
division. The result of this action has been to reduce the expenditure
of the Council for dust removal during the last five months of 1901
to the extent of over £900. I may add that this saving is still continuing,
and that in the course of a year the saving should be little
short of £2,000.
The following table gives the number of requests to remove the
dust received during the year compared with previous years. They
amount to an average of three per week, a very small number compared
with the number of inhabited houses in the borough.

Following the custom of former years I give a table showing the
number of refusals and no answers received by the dustmen during
the year whilst making their visits to remove the house refuse.