Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys, by Encouraging a New Method of Sweeping Chimneys: Twenty-First Report, May 1, 1837

by Anonymous

That the Committee endeavour to obtain the consent and signatures of Housekeepers to have Machines only used in cleansing their Chimneys.

V.

That be appointed the Agent of the Association, and supplied with the necessary Apparatus; and that employment be sought for the boys, whose services may be no longer required by their masters.

VI.

That application be made to the London Society, for purchasing such Machines and other Apparatus as may be deemed requisite by the Committee, and for any information on the subject.

VII.

That the Committee meet once a month, or oftener, if necessary, and that Five Members be empowered to act. And that a General Meeting of the Subscribers be held once annually, on a day to be fixed by the Committee.

CHIMNEY SWEEPING DESCRIBED.

A number of flues concentrated, forms a stack of chimneys, as represented in the engraving. Flues, at a distance from the stack, are conveyed to it either in a horizontal or sloping form, as at A and G. The size of flues generally is nine inches by fourteen inches; a space sufficiently large to convey the smoke, but not large enough to be ascended, except by little children, for the purpose of cleansing them.