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42 BOROUGH OF PADDINGTON.
69.45 or 4.20 loads per horse, per working day. The
following miscellaneous materials and quantities have
been abstracted from the before-mentioned quantity:—
17.5 tons of coals, 28 cart loads and 20 boat loads of
hard core, 145 boats or 3,516 tons of soft core and
garbage, 52 tons of bones, 100 tons of rags, 43 tons
13 cwts. of old iron, 4.25 tons of various metals, 10.75
tons of white glass, and 25 van loads of
black glass. There has been sorted and sifted 17,191
chaldrons of ashes, and 11,553 chaldrons of breeze:
of this quantity 11,455 chaldrons of ashes and 6,503
chaldrons of breeze were sent away by 604 boats and
barges, and 5,736 chaldrons of ashes and 5,050
chaldrons of breeze have been removed by the purh
asers' own carts.
As anticipated last year, the sale of ashes and
breeze, and the prices obtained therefrom, have considerably
improved during the past twelve months.
Slopping.
The contract for the removal of dry sweepings,
slop, scrapings and snow taken off the public highways,
was let to Mr. Hy, Odell, of Hayes, at 1s, 3d. per ton.
This sum included the expenses of tonnage, haulage,
and the shoot. The number of loads thus sent away
was 24,303. The maximum number of loads collected
in one week being 1,313, and the minimum 235, or a
daily average throughout the year of 78.39 loads;
Each of the two gulley-cleansing carts were out 307
days during the year.