TABLE SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF MEN AT PRESENT ENGAGED IN STREET-SWEEPING BY MACHINES, AND THE NUMBER THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SWEEP THE SAME DISTRICTS BY HAND, TOGETHER WITH THE ANNUAL AMOUNT OF WAGES ACCRUING TO EACH.
| DISTRICTS. | Machine Labour. |
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| Number of Men employed to attend Machines. | Annual Wages received by Machine Men, at 16s. a Week. |
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| St. Martin’s-in-the Fields | 8 | £332 | 16s. |
| Regent-street and Pall-mall (see table, p. [214]) | 12 | 499 | 4 |
| Other places, connected with Woods and Forests | 4 | 166 | 8 |
| Total | 24 | 998 | 8 |
| DISTRICTS. | Manual Labour. |
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| Number of men that would be required to sweep the Streets by Manual labour. | Annual Wages that would be received by Manual Labourers, at 15s. a Week. |
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| St. Martin’s-in-the Fields | 28 | £1092 | 0s. |
| Regent-street and Pall-mall (see table, p. [214]) | 42 | 1638 | 0 |
| Other places, connected with Woods and Forests | 14 | 546 | 0 |
| Total | 84 | 3276 | 0 |
| DISTRICTS. | Difference. |
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| Number of Men displaced by Machine-work. | Annual Loss in Wages to Manual Labourers by Machine-work. |
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| St. Martin’s-in-the Fields | 20 | £759 | 4s. |
| Regent-street and Pall-mall (see table, p. [214]) | 30 | 1138 | 16 |
| Other places, connected with Woods and Forests | 10 | 379 | 12 |
| Total | 60 | 2277 | 12 |
Hence, we perceive that no less than 60 street-sweepers are deprived of work by the street-sweeping machine, and that the gross Wage Fund of the men is diminished by the employment of mechanical labour no less than 2277l. per annum.
But let us suppose the street-sweeping machine to come into general use, and all the men who are at present employed by the contractors, both large and small, to sweep the street by hand to be superseded by it, what would be the result? how much money would the manual labourers be deprived of per annum, and how many self-supporting labourers would be pauperized thereby? The following table will show us: in the first compartment given below we have the number of manual labourers employed throughout London by the large and small contractors, and the amount of wages annually received by them[20]; in the second compartment is given the number of men that would be required to sweep the same districts by the machine, and the amount of wages that would be received by them at the present rate; and the third and last compartment shows the gross number of hands that would be displaced, and the annual loss that would accrue to the operatives by the substitution of mechanical for manual labour in the sweeping of the streets.
TABLE SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF CONTRACTORS’ MEN AT PRESENT EMPLOYED TO SWEEP THE STREETS BY HAND, AND THE NUMBER THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SWEEP THE SAME DISTRICTS BY MACHINE WORK, TOGETHER WITH THE AMOUNT OF WAGES ACCRUING TO EACH.
| Manual Labour. |
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| Number of Men at present employed by Contractors to sweep the streets. | Annual Wages received by Contractors’ Men for sweeping the Streets, at 15s. a Week. |
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| Districts at present swept by large contractors (see table, p. [214]) | 262 | £10,218 | 0s. |
| Districts swept by small contractors | 13 | 507 | 0 |
| Total | 275 | 10,725 | 0 |
| Machine Labour. |
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| Number of Machine Men that would be required to attend the Street-sweeping Machines. | Annual Wages that would be received by Machine Men, at 16s. a Week. |
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| Districts at present swept by large contractors (see table, p. [214]) | 75 | £3120 | 0s. |
| Districts swept by small contractors | 4 | 166 | 8 |
| Total | 79 | 3286 | 8 |