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MACHINE BROOMS, &c.
The machine brooms required refilling with new bass
on the average once in five weeks. The cost of sundry
repairs and refillings, hand brooms and brushes for Orderly
Boys, &c., amounted to the sum of £92 3s. 0d.
WATERING.
The street watering throughout the year was carried
out by Mr. William Mead, of Paddington, at a shedule of
prices. The water is supplied by the Grand Junction Water
Works Company by contract. The cost of team labour,,
&c., was £411 18s. 2d., and water £401 16s. 5d.
STAND POSTS.
The cost of repairs to stand posts and swan necks,
repacking, &c., has amounted to £63 10s. 8d.
SNOW, &c.
During the winter there were four heavy snow storms,
viz., on the 15th and 16th February, the 17 th February,
the 19th and 20th February, and the 9th and 10th March.
The first snowfall, on the 15th and 16th February, was
three inches in thickness; 14 tons of salt were used for
melting the snow, and 200 cubic yards of snow were carted
to and shot into the river from the Thames Embankment.
Nearly the whole was removed before night on the 17 th.
The second snowfall, on the night of the 17th February,
was also about three inches in thickness, but it was nearly
all dissolved without much difficulty with the aid of salt.
What little was left was carted away.