Yearly Expenditure.
| 24 men, 16s. weekly | £998 |
| 120 sets of brooms for 12 machines, 4l. per set | 480 |
| Wear and tear, &c. (15 per cent.) | 255 |
| Keep of 19 horses, 10s. each weekly | 494 |
| Rent (say) | 150 |
| Clerk (say) | 100 |
| Interest on capital, at 10 per cent. | 170 |
| £2674 |
In this calculation I have included wear and tear of the whole of the implements of the stock-in-trade, &c., taking that of the brooms on the most moderate estimate. According to the scale of payment by the parish of St. Martin (which is now 1000l. per annum) the probable receipts of a single year will be:—
Yearly Receipts.
| £ | s. | d. | |
| For hire of 12 machines | 2500 | 0 | 0 |
| 200 barge-loads of manure, 5l. 15s. per barge | 1150 | 10 | 0 |
| 3650 | 10 | 0 | |
| Yearly expenditure | 2674 | 0 | 0 |
| Profit | 976 | 10 | 0 |
Of the Cleansing of the Streets by Pauper Labour.
Under the head of the several modes and characteristics of street-cleansing, I stated at p. [207] of the present volume that there were no less than four distinct kinds of labourers employed in the scavaging of the public thoroughfares of the metropolis. These were:—
1. The self-supporting manual labourers.
2. The self-supporting machine labourers.
3. The pauper labourers.
4. The “philanthropic” labourers.
I have already set forth the distinguishing features of the first two of these different orders of workmen in connection with the scavaging trade, and now proceed in due order to treat of the characteristics of the third.