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The following is a statement of the number of loads
reported to have been removed from the parish during the
year :—
Cart Loads. Wagon Loads.
Dust 36 9,318
Slop 508 5,187
The cost of Street Watering last year was £884 13s. 4d.,
or £62 l1s. 0d. less than in 1889-90.
WORKMEN'S SICK FUND.
A sick fund, on the principle of a slate club, limited to
the Vestry's workmen, has been in operation since the 1st
August, 1887. The Vestry contribute the sum of 5s. a week
to the funds of the club, in lieu of allowing sick pay to
individual workmen. An exceptional amount of sickness
prevailed early in the year 1890, and the ordinary resources
of the club not being equal to the demands made upon
them, the Vestry gave a special grant of £15 to the fund,
on condition that not less than £10 is left undivided at the
end of each year.
REMOVAL OF SNOW.
In anticipation of the approach of winter, the Vestry
sought and obtained permission from the Thames Conservators
and the London County Council, to cast clean snow
over the parapet of the Victoria Embankment into the
river
The Vestry have had occasion to avail themselves of this
permission more than once during the winter. The first
heavy snowfall occurred on the 28th November. About 30