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the question, and have decided to erect destructors
and cremate their refuse.
Collecting
Rough Dust.
In the collecting of the rough dust during the
year the men were employed 304 days, 4,411 horses
and carts being engaged in this work. 20,092½ loads
were collected, giving a daily average of 66.09 loads,
or 4.55 loads per horse per day. The maximum loads
collected in one week being 628, and minimum 213.
The cost of collecting being £1,617 17s. 2d., and of
sifting £1,297 0s. 11½d.
Materials
abstracted.
From the before mentioned loads of dust the
following miscellaneous materials were abstracted,
viz., 14,449½ chaldrons of ashes and 7,907 chaldrons
of breeze, 170 boat loads or 2,929 tons of soft core,
337 cart loads and 8 boat loads or about 600 tons of
old broken crockery and pickings, 32 tons of coals, 53
tons of bones, 100 tons of rags, 72 tons of old cast and
wrought iron, 4 tons 7 cwt. of various metals, such as
brass, zinc, and pewter, 15 tons of white sheet glass,
and 44 tons of black glass.
Expenses of
Haulage,
unloading,
and Tonnage.
The expenses attending the haulage of ashes and
breeze on the canal was £81 7s. l1d., soft. core
£146 9s. ; unloading ashes, &c., at Alperton,
£98 17s. 6d., soft core at Southall £36 12s. 2d. ;
the tonnage dues on ashes £195 7s. 8d., soft core
£146 9s.