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4, Let there be created an office for a 
director of health, appointed by the Com- 
mon Council of London, with a salary of 
twelve hundred pounds per annum; and 
an establishment of clerks, and eight sur- 
veyors, or inspectors, at salaries of two 
hundred and fifty pounds each. 
2. Let the metropolis, from the meridian 
of Hyde-Park corner to that of Mile- 
End, and from the parallel of Islington 
charch to that of Kennington, be divided 
into eight districts, each to be under the 
direction of a surveyor, who should 
change his district every twelve months. 
3. Let each surveyor have under his 
control thirty regular labourers, each at 
twenty shillings per week, with power to 
double the number three days in every 
week, when needful. These labourers to 
consist of cartmen, sweepers, and white- 
washers; and the supernumeraries to be 
taken from the parish workhouses of the 
districts, at two shillings per day. 
4. Let every district be provided witha 
yard, or repository for its carts, herses, 
lime-washing, apparatus, &c. &c. where 
also the district-surveyor should reside. 
5. Let all the streets, lanes, alleys, &c. 
be swept every other morning, and all nni- 
sances and offensive objects be removed 
early every morning,—-occasionally wash- 
ing the streets; and, during a snow-season, 
sweeping and cleansing them every 
morning, 
Observation,—The streets, lanes, &c. of 
London, are all together about 110 miles 
long, which,-if swept every other morning, 
would be 55 miles per morning ; which 55 
miles, divided among 220 sweepers, would 
give 440 yards to each, in dry weather, or 
in dirty weather, when the hands would be 
doubled, 220 yards to each ;—in either 
case, about six or seven hours’ labour of 
this kind per day, the remainder being oc- 
cupied in ‘lime-washing, engine-washing, 
carting, &c. &e. 
6. Let cleanliness be strictly-enfurced 
on the duties of the public, in regard to 
sweeping the pavement opposite their 
doors, omitting to throw out filth, &c. &c. 
7. Let all, houses which are exempt by 
reason of the poverty of their inhabitants 
from paying poor’s-rates, be lime-washed 
twice on the outside every year, and once 
through the inside. 
8. Let ‘all dead-walls, to the height of 
six feet, and also the vacant spaces under 
shop and other windows, (unless the own- 
ers choose to paint or frequently wash 
them,) be lime-washed twice in every 
year. pis 
9. Let a sufficient number of sinks be 
made for certain convenient purposes, 
with drains under the pavement, and let 
all the sinks be washed with hot lime 
every other morning. 
10. Let the fronts ofall houses in streets, 
lanes, alleys, and courts, not exceeding 
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fifteen feet in width, be lime-washed, 
coloured with yellow, painted, or stue- 
coed, twice in every year, under penalty ; 
and, if Not done within two years, let them 
he lime-washed by the police, and the exé 
pense assessed on the owner or occupant. 
11, Let the back parts of all honses, in 
which there is not a space of fifteen feet 
between exterior walls, be lime-washed, 
coloured with yellow, painted, or stuccoed, 
ounce in every year, under the like 
penalties. 
12,. Let the exterior walls of all public 
buildings, churches, chureh-yards,'&c. &c. 
be lime-washed by the police, at least six 
feet high, twice in every year, unless the 
surfaces are otherwise renewed by the 
owners, or parties concerned. 
13. Let special regulations be made. for 
the cleanliness of markets, prisons, and 
workhouses, and to prevent the exercise of 
noisome trades at improper hours. 
14, Let all the streets be washed with 
engines, with water or lime-water, in dry 
weather once a-day, in the months of June, 
July, August, and September. 
The gross annual expenses of these 
great improvements may be estimated 
in the following manner :— 
£ 
Director's salary --++++++e0+-+++++ 1,200 
His clerks, and eight surveyors--++ 2,400 
Eight collectors of Assessments -+++ 800 
Two hundred and forty constant 
labourers, at 591. +--+ -++-++++-+12,480 
Two hundred and forty extra ditto, 
ata SE AOS Hie ye hia dae. +++ 3,720 
Horse-keep of 160 horses, at 261. -- 4,160 
Renewal of twenty horses, at 30/.-- 600 
Lime and tools per annum --+-+*+* 500 
Interest of money borrowed, for 
buildings, carts, horses, engines, 
&e. &c. at the commencement ;— 
say 30,0001. at six percent. ,--++ 15800 
Sundry expences, as printing, adver- 
tizing, stationery, law, &c,--+--+ 1,600 
29,260 
In the eight districts, there are about 
100,000 houses, so that the assessments 
would be but 5s. 6d. per house, on the 
average, or 20s. on great houses, 10s. 
on middling ones, and 2s. on small 
ones ; and the sale of the sweepings is 
not taken into the account, though they 
would yield a very considerable 
amount. 
Under such arrangements, and atso 
trifling an expence, it must be evident, 
that London would become the clean- 
est city in the world, and unite all the 
agreeables of town life to an enlight- 
ened and polished people. Typhous 
fever, which is a perpetual plague in 
the 
