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38 Document No. 14. [Session
This state of things would be bad enough if the dry trash alone was
thrown into the streets. It is not infrequently the case that some dead
domestic animal, or the entrails of fish and fowls are seen in the middle
of the streets, offending the eye and disgqsting the nose. The plan pro-posed
therefore for the prompt removal of garbage, we suggest as fol-lows
:
The city sliould be divided into six sections, representing the six work
days of the weelc. This divi>iou sliould be accomplished with due refer-ence
to the density of the population in the different quartei's of the city.
Printed rules should be distributed giving the outlines of the sections,
and notifying every householder, that on a certain day of the week, reg-ularly,
their ash barrels and swill tubs would be taken away free of
charge, but on no other days. The carts should visit every section in
pairs—the one taking the asJies, i&c, the other taking the swill. The
household receptacles should be emptied and left. A suitable penalty
for neglect of the regulations ought to be ordained after sufficient noti-fication.
There need be no particular model for a cart for ashes, but for swill
there is a barrel constructed by the Eagle Odorless Apparatus Company,
12 Pemberton Square, Boston, four of which could be placed on a cart.
Serious and careful attention should be paid to the selection of a dump-ing
ground. For years it lias been noticed that the sweepings and even
disgusting offal have been removed from the thickly settled portion of
the city, and dumped in huge piles around the suburbs. Not unfre-quently
helpless families on the outskirts have been made sick by the
pestilential emanations which have been carried by the prevailing winds
into their humble homes.
It is plain that this is grossly wrong and extravagant. Wrong, be-cause
the helpless petty tax-payer having no influential voice to abate
the nuisance for him, is taken sick, and either suffers in consequence of
being insufficiently cared for, or falls to the charge of the city, co?isuming
medicines, the cost of which sliould have been spent in preventing his sick-ness
by making the surroundings of his home healthful ; extravagant for
the reason above given, and also because the material which when
wrongly disposed of engenders disease, if properly used upon a farm or
garden would fertilize and improve it. But this is not the worst of it.
Garbage is used to fill in lots, and mend washed places in the streets.
This suicidal action hasbten repeated again and again in our towns,
until tlie lessons of hjgiene and common sense have only taken posses-sion
of managers of some corporations, after pestilential disaster has
brought it home.
The deposit of hundreds of loads of ashes, cabbage stalks, packing-straw,
moulded vegetables, dead cats, and mingled kitchen refuse does
not strike one as being a wise sanitary proceeding for the present or for
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| Full Text | 38 Document No. 14. [Session This state of things would be bad enough if the dry trash alone was thrown into the streets. It is not infrequently the case that some dead domestic animal, or the entrails of fish and fowls are seen in the middle of the streets, offending the eye and disgqsting the nose. The plan pro-posed therefore for the prompt removal of garbage, we suggest as fol-lows : The city sliould be divided into six sections, representing the six work days of the weelc. This divi>iou sliould be accomplished with due refer-ence to the density of the population in the different quartei's of the city. Printed rules should be distributed giving the outlines of the sections, and notifying every householder, that on a certain day of the week, reg-ularly, their ash barrels and swill tubs would be taken away free of charge, but on no other days. The carts should visit every section in pairs—the one taking the asJies, i&c, the other taking the swill. The household receptacles should be emptied and left. A suitable penalty for neglect of the regulations ought to be ordained after sufficient noti-fication. There need be no particular model for a cart for ashes, but for swill there is a barrel constructed by the Eagle Odorless Apparatus Company, 12 Pemberton Square, Boston, four of which could be placed on a cart. Serious and careful attention should be paid to the selection of a dump-ing ground. For years it lias been noticed that the sweepings and even disgusting offal have been removed from the thickly settled portion of the city, and dumped in huge piles around the suburbs. Not unfre-quently helpless families on the outskirts have been made sick by the pestilential emanations which have been carried by the prevailing winds into their humble homes. It is plain that this is grossly wrong and extravagant. Wrong, be-cause the helpless petty tax-payer having no influential voice to abate the nuisance for him, is taken sick, and either suffers in consequence of being insufficiently cared for, or falls to the charge of the city, co?isuming medicines, the cost of which sliould have been spent in preventing his sick-ness by making the surroundings of his home healthful ; extravagant for the reason above given, and also because the material which when wrongly disposed of engenders disease, if properly used upon a farm or garden would fertilize and improve it. But this is not the worst of it. Garbage is used to fill in lots, and mend washed places in the streets. This suicidal action hasbten repeated again and again in our towns, until tlie lessons of hjgiene and common sense have only taken posses-sion of managers of some corporations, after pestilential disaster has brought it home. The deposit of hundreds of loads of ashes, cabbage stalks, packing-straw, moulded vegetables, dead cats, and mingled kitchen refuse does not strike one as being a wise sanitary proceeding for the present or for |
