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BOROUGH Of PADDINGTON.
by cremation, and I think the day is not far distant
when the Vestry will have to seriously consider this
important matter.
Slopping Department.
All the dry sweepings, slop, &c., collected by the
Vestry's own men is brought to the Depot. The
latter, when in a fluid state, being deposited in the
filtering tanks, so that the water may drain away, the
residue-mud being placed into boats and taken away
by Canal beyond Southall, under a contract with
Messrs. Studds, at 1s. 4½d. per ton, such amount
including haulage, tonnage, and shoot.
The quantity collected from the various thoroughfares
in the Parish during the year was 30,049 loads,
being an excess over former years owing to the
wet summer and the severe winter weather. The
maximum number of loads of slop and snow brought
in in one week being 2,245 and the minimum
158, giving a daily average throughout the year
of 97.24 loads. By Canal 26,659 tons of slop,
&c., has been boated away in 767 boats; 7,826 horses
and vans have been employed collecting, averaging
daily 25.37, or at the rate of 3.78 loads per horse per
day.
Cleansing the Public Streets.
This work is carried out by gangs of sweepers,
and whenever practicable by horse-scraping and