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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Giles (Camberwell) 1886
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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The following represents the average staff and plant
so employed:—
Staff:— 1 Superintendent
1 Horse-keeper
1 Shoot clerk
1 Shoot labourer
9 Collectors
23 Drivers
1 Messenger
1 Wharf attendant
Horses and Rolling Stock:— 23 Horses
24 Dust carts
The quantity of dust collected during the
past year ending Lady-day, 1887 - 25,061 loads.
Do. do. 1886 - 21,582 „
Increase in the year 3,479 „
The total cost of the work has been as follows:—
| Dust working expenses of all kinds | £5,662 | 9 | 10 |
| New Plant | £284 | 8 | 6 |
| Wharf rent, taxes, &c. | £90 | 13 | 3 |
| £6,037 | 11 | 7 |
Equal to about an average of 4s. 10d. per load.
This cost of about 4s. 10d. per load would have been
increased had not the Vestry been enabled to avail themselves
of short shoots in the outlying portions of the Parish,
as, although 25,061 loads of dust were collected, of this