Refuse destructors : with results up to present time / [Charles Jones].

  • Charles Jones
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Refuse destructors : with results up to present time / [Charles Jones]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BY THE SURVEYOR OF ST. JOHN, HAMPSTEAD, N.W., Charles H. Lowe, Esq. R Area of this Parish is 2,248 acres ; the Population, 74,000 (at the Census in 1891 the number was 68,425); and the Rateable Value, £710,379. In 1868, and for some years previously, the Vestry received payment for the House Refuse, the Contractor finding the plant, and bearing all expenses of collection. In 1869 this condition of things was changed, as the Vestry was called upon to pay for the removal of the dust. The cost, howevei did not exceed twopence per head per annum of the population. From the time when the plan was adopted of dividing the Parish into six Districts and each District being visited once a week by the carts, t e cost gradually rose until in 1881 it was rather more than nmepence per head per annum of the population. In 1882 arrangements were made, which have been continuously and successfully carried out ever since, for every house to be called at regularly once a week. Complaints of non-removal are almost unknown. In’1889 a Destructor with “ Fume Cremator” was built by Messrs. Manlove, Alliott and Co, and a wharf formed, with stabling, foreman s cottage, etc. on the hanks of the Grand Junction Canal near Willesden
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