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Of this quantity, 16,492 loads were removed by
Barge (224 Barge loads), 4,648 loads were deported by Rail,
3,243 shot at a Shoot at Cold Blow, Hatcham, the remainder
was delivered on to private shoots for various purposes
near to the locality of collection at agreed prices—1,414
loads of which were deposited at Free Shoots.
The dust barging contract was at the rate of 2s, 3d.
per dust-cart load for the first three months, and 2s. 8d. for
the remaining nine months. The removal by Rail is at
2s. 3d. per load to which an additional 3d. is paid for
delivery into and trimming the Railway-trucks.
Your Committee have continued to avail themselves of
every opportunity afforded to deliver Dust, &c., within the
district of such collection where use could be made of the
same, without detriment to the health of the locality, in order
to reduce the quantity to be otherwise barged, away, also
the saving of miles of Cartage from the respective Districts
of Collection, to the Wharf. These Free Shoots are fast
decreasing in number.
DUST DESTRUCTORS.
The Vestry appointed on the 30th July last, a Special
Joint Committee of the Sewers and Sanitary and Plant
and Scavenging Committees to consider and report to this
Vestry the desirability of erecting furnaces for destroying
the dust and other refuse of the Parish. The Joint Committee
duly elected Mr. D. C. Preston Chairman, and
the following places were visited by a Sub-Committee
of the above Committees, viz.: Ealing, Hastings, Lott's