The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

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THE CLEANSING of the STREETS.
M ANSION-HOUSE.

• The LORD MAyon stated that he had, within the
last few days, called the attention of the public and
of the police mo:e than once to the state of the streets
of London. He had himself personally, as well as by
strict inquiry, :s.:ertained that the condition of the
!thoroughfares was so excessively bad that there could
exist no doubt of the invalidation of the contract in
consequence of the neglect of its terms by the con-
tractor. The voice of the public adequately pro-
claimed the extent and unendurable nature of the
nuisance, and it vtai quite impossible for the inha-
bitants to perform the duty which devolved upon
them by virtue of the Police Act, to keep the foot-
ways_ adjoining their. premises swept and cleansed
unless the scavengers performed theirs in removing
the masses of mud and filth collected in. the carriage-
way. The season ad just arrived when activity and
decision became, i z enforcing the provisions of the
Act, indispensable, and he thought it would be of
considerable use to his :'ellow-citizens to keep before
their eyes the informat'on contained in the following
account of the rakers' duties and districts :
CITY OF LONDON.

Rakers' Duties rnd Districts for the year ending at Mid-
. summer Day, 1844.
CLEAN SING.

• The public markets and the carriage ways of all the
Ivets, lance, and public places, are to be properly picked,
s crept, and cleansed from mud, dust, filth, and rubbish,
at id all animal and vegetable matter,tand everything that
is effimsive or injurious, and the same is to be picked ana
swept up into the middle of all streets which exceed 16
feet in width from kerb to kerb (bat not within 10 feet
of any gully or sewer grating), ' and carted away there-
from forthwith ; and in so cleansing all placez the iron
gutters laid across or along thv ;footway shalt be raked
ont and made clear for the water to run oft; and the air-
grates over the sewers in the carriage-ways of this
streets are to be raked out and math, clear from mud and

. all obstructions ; and all straw, liTter„ tanners' bari;,
IN.(' before the houses of sick persons, is to be removed
by the contractor, :when notice has boen given him by
the inspector of the district so to do ; ar2d the footway
in any street or place situate before any hoard or open
vacant ground is to be carefully swept, at the same time
that the street is swept. The contractor is. to cleanse
the streets from snow and all unfrozen or partially frozen
matter.

All streets and places into which a cart can enter ara
to be cleansed by Whitworth's patent street...sweeping-
machine, and all other places into which the machine
cannot enter, are to be cleansed by manual labour.
DUST.

The contractor is to take away without fee or reward
from any ,house or building, at least twice in the wick,
or oftener if required by the housekeepers or their ser-
vants, the dust, ashes, dirt, rubbish, and refuse, vegetable
and animal matter, and all other the usual refuse of a
house. And the dust, &c., as aforesaid, is to be taken
away by the contractor respectively from the prisons of
Newgate, the Fleet-prison, the Giltspur-street Compter,
the prison in Whitecross-street, Christ's Hospital, the
Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Mansion House, the
, Bank of England, the East India Company's house, the
Custom House, the General Post-office, and the Excise-
office daily, if required (Sundays excepted), before ten
o'clock in the forenoon. Penalty for each neglect, 10s.
The contents of all public dust-bins, wherever situate,
shall be cleared out and carted away, twice in every '
week, or oftener if need be, whatever may be the nature
of their contents. Penalty for each neglect, ss.
All the refuse from the houses of the inhabitants,
,L,,.1 all the sweepings of the streets and markets as be-
fore
.deseribed, are to be taken direct and wholly awry
from i2le City of London, on penalty of 101. for each
cart-load not so taken away.
Contracts.'
for the whole City of London,—
join,,- GORE, 11 and 12 Wharfs,. Paddington.
The whole lint
of streets, from Temple-bar to Aid-
gate-street ; also ish:wgate-street, King William-street,
London-bridge, and Fechurch
-street, are to be cleansed
daily (Sunday excepted) be!wFen five o clock and eight
o'clock in the morning of each. day, from Lady Day to
Michaelmas Day, and between 1;;:e o'clock and inne
o'clock in the morning of each day, from Michaelmas
Day to Lady Day. Penalty on each street 40s.
STREETS TO BE CLEANSED THREE TIMES A WEEK--•