STREETS, The Public Works of the Shanghai Municipal Council having substituted motor for horse-drawn vehicles for the cleansing. and watering of roads, it has for disposal a number of carts and a quantity of harness in good condition. For some time mechanical water wagons and road sweepers have been employed on day and night work, the quantity of water used by them last year in washing ud ing Central District only, using litionsl 1,879,400 gallons. As the whole work will now be done by motor-driven vehicles the Department has five water carte for disposal, Specially constructed motor vehicles have been in use for some years removing house refuse (which now amounts to nearly a thousand tons n day) and in carrying road detritus (44,722 tons in 1981) and gully deposit (19,208 tons in 1931) for land raising, ete. But, in addition, a number of horse-drawn carts have been employed. The growth of the Settlement and the consequent énerease in the quantity of material to be removed over Jonger distances has mele it uneconomical to employ horse-drawn cart '80 they have been superseded by mechanical wagons, The Council, asa result, is offering for sale forty sweeping carts and twelve gully carts in addition to the water: carts already mentioned, while it has for disposal a large quantity of harness and other serviceable equipment, cil on May 18, when it was resolved that this report be submitted to the Health Committee for its consideration and recommendation las to its adoption, in, tata, or otherwise.
Mr. J. R. Jones, Secretary to the Shanghai "Municipal Council, on. May 14 wrote to Dr, E, Birt, Chair. man of the Hospital and Nursing Services Commission:
am directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 18, transmitting for the Council's eon: sideration the report of the Hospital and Nursing Services Commission, In thanking you for this report, 1 am directed "to convey to members of the Commission the Council's appreciation of their public spirited action in giving the Council and Community the benet of their experience on the important questions which came under review. The comprehensive nature of this report attests to the painstaking research and ability which has been brought to bear on the problems with which the Commission was called upon to deal, and the time which its members unatintingly gave in the public interest places the Council and the Ratepayers under a very heavy obligation, Accordingly, the Council takes pleasure in extending to the members of the Commission its very grateful thanks for the services they have rendered on behalf of the Community.
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