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of which will best be shewn by the following Reports presented
by them to the Board, viz.:-
"Your Committee have approached the consideration of
"the subject referred to them with a deep sense of its importance
"to the health, comfort, and convenience of the ratepayers. The
"matter has been very fully discussed at three meetings, and a
"quantity of information and statistics furnished by the
"neighbouring Local Authorities of Bcthnal Green, St. Gcorge"in-thc-East,
Shorcditch, Whitechapcl, Hackney, and Poplar,
vhas been laid before the Committee, and as a result of their
"deliberations your Committee beg to state as follows:
"I.—With regard to the removal of Dust your Committee
"are of opinion:
"(a) That the pail system should be adopted throughout
"the District, and that one pail should be supplied to each
"family living in a house ;
"(b) That the District should be divided into 3 sections
"corresponding to the Districts at present under the control of
"the Sanitary Inspectors, and that a Dust Inspector, under the
"immediate supervision of the Sanitary Inspectors, should be
"appointed by the Board for each of such sections respectively
"to superintend and assist in the removal of dust ;
"(c) That the Dust Inspectors should be paid 25/. per week
"each and be furnished by the Board with uniform caps, and
"that they should be forbidden to accept gratuities ,
"(d) That the Ccntractors should be required to call at
"each house in the District twice at least in every week, asfar as
"practicable between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., to remove
"the dust;
(e) 1 hat handbills should be circulated amongst the housc"holders
throughout the District setting forth the arrangements
"for the removal of dust and the days and hours of collection.