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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Clerkenwell 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Clerkenwell, St. James and St. John]
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to generate steam to drive the fan, but in dry weather we are
practically enabled to generate steam by the refuse itself. For
11 weeks last summer no coal whatever was used.
The residue from the refuse amounted to about 269½ tons of
ashes (which, being a saleable article, gave a return of something
ike £60), and 245½ tons of clinkers, barged away at a cost of
about £20 12s. Od.
The nett cost of collecting and disposing of the dust, &c.,
was 3s. 9½d. per load, as against 4s. 10d. per load the previous
year, as shown by the following return :—
Cost of Collecting and Disposing of House Refuse, Trade
Refuse, &c., for the year ending March 25th 1900.
Number of loads—10,657.
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Wages of Dustmen and Carmen - Ditto Dust Sifters Ditto Barge Loaders (Ashes and Breeze) Ditto Ditto (Rubbish) Barge Hire for Rubbish and Hardcore, estimated Removal of Tins, &c. Horse Hire (Ash Barges, £71 l1s. 0d.; Dusting, £6 0s. 0d.) -Destructor—Engineer, Stoker, and Labourers' Wages Coals for Destructor Oil, &c., for ditto Dusting—Muswell Hill - Proportion of Establishment Charges Gross cost | 1465 987 124 13 130 12 77 254 23 8 65 3162 1321 £4484 | 19 13 5 6 0 0 11 11 15 7 0 9 16 5 | 6 5 6 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 1 8 9 |