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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
St Mary (Islington) 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]
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The approximate cost of this work was £5,689 10s.
DUSTING AND SLOPPING.
| The following statement shews the nett cost of the collection and disposal of house refuse and road sweepings during the year:— | ||||||
| Gross expenditure | £23,954 | 14 | 10 | |||
| Credit. | ||||||
| Amounts received by the sale of ashes, breeze, sand, horses and carts, and the removal of trade refuse | £1,357 | 6 | 3 | |||
| Cartage, smith's and wheelwright's work in repairing tools and water vans in connection with the repair and watering of the roads | 2,850 | 2 | 11 | |||
| Cartage and disposal of sludge from sewers and gullies, and repairing tools | 334 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Work done in connection with public lamps | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4,543 | 13 | 7 |
| £19,411 | 1 | 3 | ||||
The cost last year amounted to £17,716 or £1,695 0s. 8d. less.
The increased cost of the work this year is due to an advance in the
wages of the dustmen, to the larger quantities of material collected and to
the necessity for hiring of horses during an epidemic of influenza amongst
the Vestry's horses. The excess indeed would have been greater but for
the fact that during a portion of the year when the largest quantities
of house refuse were being collected the freightage was less than
during the previous year, viz., Is. 8d. instead of 2s. Id. per ton.
The amount paid for freightage and for shoots for house and trade
refuse and road sweepings was £4,022 16s. 4d., a decrease of £404 13s. 4d.
on the previous year.