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been employed to sprinkle the streets from the tracks 

 of the electric car lines. 



There were several falls of snow which required the 

 employment of extra men to clear the streets in 1906. 

 The extra force put to work on these occasions 



Snow 



i-;i i mod from about 340 to 1200. Snow is 

 removed by the use of salt and by hauling it away. 

 Snow ploughs have been used to good advantage. The 

 cost of the work made necessary by snow, including 

 the sanding of the steep approaches to bridges, amounted 

 to $8266 in 1906. 



The total number of men regularly employed is about 

 600. This force is increased from time to time to about 

 double the number stated in accordance with 



Force 



a kind of elastic arrangement. Among the 

 different classes of employees at work in 1906 there were 

 254 laborers at the depot for the handling of refuse; 

 133 drivers of carts and wagons; 115 pump men and 

 assistants; 112 sweepers; 78 boys to assist in handling 

 the garbage and refuse; 75 sewermen and 74 officials, 

 foremen and inspectors, in a total of 1002. 



As to sickness, there were in 1906, the only year for 

 which we have statistics, 4675 sick days distributed 

 among 506 regular men and 1855 sick days among 305 

 temporary men. Among the regular men there were 

 112 accidents, incapacitating their victims an aggre- 

 gate of 1271 days. 



The total expenditures incident to the operation of 

 the depot for the handling and final disposal of refuse 

 including the excrement collected from the 

 houses by the Liernur system, and otherwise, 

 were $82,232. This division of the work is apparently 

 self-supporting, for the receipts were $82,081. The 



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