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The seven years contract with the Surrey Consumers' Gas Company having
expired on the 1st July, 1878, a fresh contract has been entered into by the Company
to light the parish Lamps with Gas for two years from the last mentioned date, upon
the same terms, viz.: £4 5s. 0d. per lamp per annum.
Cleansing, Watering, &c.
Mr. Alfred Thomas Hobman continues to contract for the supply of men, horses,
and carts, and for the removal of scrapings from the whole of the roads and streets,
(after the same have been swept up by the labourers employed by the Vestry) to a shoot
provided by the Vestry.
Mr. A. T. Ilobman also Contracts for the supply of horses, harness, and drivers
for the Vestry's water carts. (For particulars of contract see page 9.)
In January, 1879, the Vestry appointed Messrs. Edward James Talbot, Lawrence
Stevens, Robert Foottit, Francis John Bisley, Reuben Henry Williams, Junior,
Ralph Westall Walker, and Henry Hayward as a committee to consider the question
of purchasing new watering vans in lieu of the old water carts, which were out of
repair, and the committee attended at the Depot of the Camberwell Vestry and
inspected the watering vans in use in that parish, also at the Manufactories of
Messrs. Bayley & Co., and Messrs. Hora, and the Vestry on the recommendation of
the committee, purchased 5 Hydrostatic Vans of Messrs. Bayley & Co. at £60 each,
and 2 Watering Vans of Messrs. Hora at £55 each.
Dusting.
Mr. William Etheridge is the Contractor for removing Dust, Ashes, &c. out of
the parish from the dwellings of the inhabitants. The Contractor also agrees to remove
when required, from mills, factories and premises, trade refuse, &c. upon payment to
him by the Occupiers thereof, of 3s. per cubic yard.
Removal of Nuisances, &c.
Three hundred and seventy-nine notices have been served in duplicate under the
"Nuisances Removal Act," during the past year, upon complaints made by the Medical
Officer of Health and the Inspector of Nuisances, all of which Nuisances have since
been abated by the removal of the cause of complaint, but in twelve cases summonses
had to be issued and Magistrate's Orders obtained for that purpose.
In pursuaece ol notices to that effect, 174 houses and premises have been cleansed,
repaired, whitewashed, &c.
One hundred and nine cases of defective drainage have been remedied, and sixtyfour
houses and rooms disinfected after contagious diseases.