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REPORT, 1890-91.
per lineal mile, or over the 50 miles of parish
roads 80,900 cart loads, equalling in weight 45,000
tons. If a wharf or field could be obtained to deposit
this enormous quantity, and assuming a cart will
collect far and near eight loads per day to the shoot,
it would require 10,111 horses and carts to do the
work in one day; the carting and boating away of
this quantity would entail an expenditure of at least
£12,000. To this amount must be added the work of
ploughing and sweeping the streets, stacking, rent of
depot, depreciation of plant, &c., which I estimate
would be, at least, 1/5 of this amount, or upwards of
£14,500. Of late years salt has been freely used by
many of the Metropolitan parishes as a speedy relief
and assistance in the removal of snow off wood paved
and asphalte roads, and a large quantity was used in
Paddington.
I may mention that this parish does not possess
the same facilities as those having easy access to, or
abutting on the River Thames, into which collected
snow may be readily tipped, as was done by the City
Sewers Commissioners, the Strand Board of Works,
St. George's, Hanover Square, Chelsea, and other
Vestries.
In some parishes the snow was shot down the
manholes into the sewers, but this practice I should
certainly not recommend the Vestry to adopt.