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BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
Dusting.
The number of loads collected has been 20,278,
and 4,698 horses employed; the daily average number
of loads being 65.62, or 4.31 loads per horse per
working day. The following miscellaneous materials
and quantities have been abstracted from the beforementioned
number of loads:—15 tons of coals, 204
cart loads and 20 boat loads of hard core, 3,129½ tons,
or 167 boat loads, of garbage or soft core, 63 tons
6 cwt. of bones, 100 tons of rags, 59 tons 4 cwt. of
old iron, 5 tons 13 cwt. of various metals, 13 tons 14
cwt. of v, hite glass, and 52 tons of black glass.
There has been sorted and sifted 15,486 chaldron of
ashes and 8,327 chaldron of breeze; of this quantity,
15,486 chaldron of ashes and 8,327½ chaldron of
breeze has been sent away by boats and carts.
For several years I have drawn attention to the
great difficulty experienced in disposing of the vast
quantity of ashes and breeze collected annually. This
is due in sums measure to the depiessed condition of
the brickmaking trade, but 1 attribute it principally
to the vast quantity of dust now collected in the
Metropolis, and to the rapid development of suburban
residences around London. They are nearer to the
brickfields, and formerly the dust from the Metropolitan
parishes was taken from six to fourteen miles
a vay, but now the briekmakers can obtain it from the
houses contiguous to their fields, which is more ad van-