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REPORT, 1890-91.
sweeping machines, also by the employment of street
orderly boys. The main thoroughfares and most
important streets are swept daily, especially the woodpaved
roads—periodically the latter are washed and
cleansed—other roads, where the traffic is not so great,
are swept two or three times weekly, as occasion
requires.
Frosty Weather and Snow Clearing.
I may mention that the frost set in about the end
of October, and continued more or less throughout
November, December, and January. Snow first began
to fall on the 18th of December, on which date the
Canal was frozen up and the traffic stopped, and this
continued for a space of forty days. On the 27th and
28th of December, 4 to 5 inches of snow fell, the
weather was extremely cold, and the frost continued
till the 22nd January, 1891, with occasional slight
snow falls. February was fairly fine, but from the
16th to the 22nd, a dense fog surrounded the Metropolis.
March came in bright, fair and dry, the water
carts being sent out for five days ending on the 7th
of the month; then the weather changed, and on the
11th 4 inches of snow fell, accompanied with very cold
winds and sharp frosts. Everything was done to clear
the public thoroughfares. A fall of snow invariably
calls forth many unnecessary complaints and impracticable
suggestions, and numerous persons take the
matter up very warmly, and amuse themselves by
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