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and to place it outside the street door on certain fixed days, upon
which the dustmen visit that particular street and empty the pails,
after which the householders should replace them in their back yards.
On the 12th of March the Sanitary Committee recommended the
Yestry to purchase a thousand iron pails as an experiment, to be used
for collecting the dust in No. 1 district: this was done, and in October
a second thousand were purchased, and put in use. The pails are
emptied twice a week, and are found to be a very great improvement
upon the old plan. The sooner the entire parish is brought under the
pail system the better.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
GEOEGE PADDOCK BATE.