LONDON 



are washed from once to six times a week during the 

 summer months. The season when most of the flu>h- 

 in.u i> done lupins in June mid ends in September. In 

 1 '.)()."). the <|uantity of water used to demise the st ] 

 and courts was about 90,000,000 gallons and cost about 

 $<)7L>0. 



From 10 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. day sweepers are engaged 

 in keeping the main streets and most of the secondary 

 streets clean, using for this purpose hand brooms during 

 dry weather and squeegees when the weather is wet. 

 AVhen the street dirt is too wet to sweep and too dry 

 to squeegee, it is either made more wet with sprinkling- 

 carts and removed by squeegees, or scrapers are em- 

 ployed. 



From June to September, inclusive, most of the 

 catch basins are disinfected once a week, but in many 

 places they are disinfected every day. In 

 the streets around Billingsgate fish market 

 they are disinfected three times a day in summer. 



Each day from 7:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. in summer and 

 4:30 P.M. in winter about 200 orderly boys are em- 

 ployed on the main streets in sweeping up Work of 

 horse droppings, spreading grit upon the orderlies 

 pavements and in wet weather squeegeeing the side- 

 walks. From 5 P.M. to 7:30 P.M. in summer and from 

 4:30 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. in winter about 50 boys, assisted 

 by a few sweepers, are kept at work on the main 

 streets. The agility and skill of these boys are re- 

 markable. Using a scoop resembling a short-handled 

 shovel with an inverted handle and a short broom, a 

 boy can pick up the fresh droppings of a horse in less 

 than ten seconds. 



The area of street pavement which an orderly boy 



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