WESTMINSTER, LONDON 



the four stables maintained by the Committee. All 

 reports are submitted at the City Hall for examina- 

 tion by the assistant superintendent of the Highways 

 Department and are then taken to the deputy engineer 

 of the Highways Department who has charge of street 

 cleaning. 



The total amount of street and market refuse col- 

 lected ihiring the year 1905-1900 was 59,633 tons. 

 This refuse was carted to barges situated at convenient 

 ] joints on the Thames and carried away by contract. 

 The contract price for barging away this refuse was 

 '27 cents per ton of 2240 pounds. 



( )ne of the most distinctive processes of street clean- 

 ing is flushing. The flushing is done with fire hose at 

 night from 11: 30 P.M. to 9:30 A.M. There are 



Method of 



eighteen flushers and many sweepers acting street 

 under the flushers. The flushers in turn act 

 under three flushing foremen and these foremen are 

 under the supervision of a night traveling ganger. 

 The ganger also supervises the work of collecting that 

 part of the refuse which is carried away at night. His 

 reports are made in the same way as described for the 

 day traveling ganger already mentioned. The flushing 

 staff has its chief center at a depot at Du Fours Place. 

 Some of the flushing plant is also stored there. Messroom 

 accommodations are provided at five sub-stations. The 

 night staff is divided into gangs, each consisting of one 

 leading flusher and two sweepers called assistant flushers. 

 Kach gang is provided with hose, truck, and two truck 

 lamps and a complement of 2|-inch leather hose of four 

 lengths of 40 feet each, tools for cleaning out catch 

 basins, squeegees, broom, hydrant-connection branch 

 pipes, j-inch nozzles, T-keys and tubes. In connec- 



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