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10,930 chaldrons of ashes and 5,264 chaldrons of
breeze have been sent away by 503 boats, and 2,965
chaldrons of ashes and 1,499½ chaldrons of breeze
have been taken away by carts.
Owing to the depressed condition of the brickmaking
trade, and from other causes, the sale of
ashes and breeze has not been so satisfactory, and
I fear, sooner or later, the system of burning the
entire dust collected in the Parish will have to be
seriously considered by the Vestry.
Street Cleansing.—This work is now carried out
by gangs of sweepers, and, whenever practicable, by
the horse scraping and sweeping machines; also by
street orderly boys. As a Sanitary improvement, I
would suggest the importance of providing street
orderly bins along all the important wood paved
thoroughfares, as the nuisance from the deposited
horse droppings by the side of the kerb, during hot
and sunny weather, is most objectionable, and is
a source of complaint by householders, as being most
offensive in every way, not only to themselves but
to pedestrians generally.
Slopping.—Nearly all the slop and dry sweepings
collected by the Vestry's own staff of men is brought
to the Depot, deposited in the filtering tanks, the
water being drained from the slop, and the mud