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Collection of House Refuse.—By the West Ham Corporation
Act, 1888, the Corporation is empowered to require owners
of houses to provide movable receptacles for house refuse instead of
ashpits, and by special bye-law the occupiers of houses are required to
place them outside their houses on such days as the Council fix.
Under these provisions the house refuse is collected twice each week
by the Council's own vehicles. Thirty-six carts and vans are used,
and the staff employed numbers 56 men, besides the Dust Inspector
and two foremen.
The total amount collected during the 283 working days in the
year was 27,221 loads, a decrease of 1,187 loads on the previous year