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The amount of slop has increased mainly through the enormous
increase in the vehicular traffic of the district, and also by reason of
more strict regulations having been issue,1 to prevent road detritus
being' swept into the gulleys.
The dust or house refuse has increased from the fact that the
Vestry have now to take the (Tinkers from hotel furnaces, and
the amount of house refuse from the large hotels, clubs, and
other large buildings within the parish materially increased.
There is also an increase in the wages amount, the dustmen now
being paid tenpence per load removed, instead of fourpenee halfpenny.
This increase came into operation in .January. to pie\ent
the men having the same excuse as formerly for taking " tips the
same being rigidly prohibited under the Public Health Act( London),
1891.
The surfaces of the wood and asphalte pavements are washed as
often as is found necessary, fifteen orderly men are also employed in
collecting horse droppings, and for the first part of the day in
spreading ballast upon the roadways.

The footways in front ol vacant spaces have been swept and
cleansed as previously, and on and after the 1st of January, 1892,
when the provisions of the New Public Health Act (London), 1891,
came into force, the whole of the footways in the parish have been
regularly swept and Cleansed. the number of men employed upon
this work and the cleansing of the courts has varied from 4 to 10,
according to the state of the weather.