LONDON 



of streets, about $1500 for watering tin- streets, and 

 about $200 for flushing sewers. 



The streets of the City of London an- often exceedingly 

 crooked and irregular in direction, though well paved 

 and kept in an excellent state of repair. C h* r c teTof 

 Numerous courts, alleys, and passageways Streeti 

 exist. The way to some of these lies through covered 

 entrances. It is illustrative of the completeness of the 

 jurisdiction of the street-cleaning department, as well as 

 of the thoroughness of its work, to state that the walls 

 of about eighty of these entrances are cleaned and 

 some whitewashed twice each year. 



Some idea of the extent of the work of the Corpora- 

 tion in keeping the streets clean may be gathered from 

 the fact that over 1,209,000 people and nearly 



Traffic 



100,000 carriages enter and leave the city 



daily, and that out of this number more than 300,000 



persons pass the day within the city. 



On Cheapside, a street which varies from curb to 

 curb from 32 to 41 feet 10 inches, 1,322 vehicles have 

 been counted passing a given point in one hour and 

 12,563 have passed from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. 



Practically speaking, the whole city is washed every 

 night by water taken from hydrants or water carts, 

 the main work of cleaning beginning at 8 P.M. Street 

 (Saturdays and Sundays excepted) and end- washing 

 ing at 6:30 A.M. the following morning. The first 

 streets attended to are those in which the traffic prac- 

 tically ceases after 7 P.M., and the last those in which 

 it continues up to a late hour. The men are engaged 

 on these last streets up to 6 o'clock in the morning. 



The washing of streets is done in a highly scientific 

 manner with leather hose attached to hydrants. The 



