Municipal housecleaning

WHO, AS THE FOUNDER AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STATE CONFERENCE OF MAYORS AND OTHER CITY OFFICIALS, WHICH DEVELOPED THAT UNIQUE INSTITUTION, THE STATE BUREAU OF MUNICIP...

I believe that most of our urban citizens appreciate the importance of keeping our cities clean and healthful by the proper removal and disposal of the mass of wastes that accum...

The unit work must be established and the responsibility of each employee fixed in order to secure an economical administration of street cleaning. This principle is illustrated...

An investigation made by the Milwaukee Bureau of Municipal Research into the cost of rotary broom service brought out the following facts: In industrial and outlying residential...

In a paper read before the American Society of Municipal Improvements, Mr. Parlin summarizes as follows the results of a study made by him to determine the economy of the variou...

─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────── City │ AREA IN SQUARE YARDS SUBJECT TO CLEANING ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ Hand...

─────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────── City │ CUBIC YARDS OF STREET SWEEPING REMOVED PER WEEK │ ├──────────────────────────────────────── │ Hand Sweeping ├──────...

─────────────┬─────────────────────────┬───────────────────────── City │ Number of Weeks in │ Average Number of │ Cleaning Season │ Cleanings per Week │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │...

──────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────── FORCE │ METHODS OF CLEANING USED ─────────────┬─────────┬─────┬────────┼─────────────────────────────── Ci...

─────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────┬───────────── City │ Number of │ Which Are │Total Square │ Appliances │ Giving │Yards Cleaned │ Used │ Satisfaction │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │...

─────────────┬──────────────────────┬───────────┬────────── City │Times Cleaned per Week│ Area │ Work in │ │Cleaned by │ Gangs or │ │White Wings│ Singly │ │ During 8 │ │ │ Hours...

─────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────┬───────────── City │Where and in│Equipment of │ How are │ Standard │ What are │ White Wings │ Assignments of │ Day’s W...

─────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────┬───────────────── City │How is Efficiency │ System and │ Organization of │ of Employees │ Method of │ Street Cleaning │ Checked U...

─────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────── City │ Innovations │ How Are Machines │ Gallons Water Used │ that Have │ Routed? │ per 1,000 Sq. Yds │ Reduc...

─────────────┬───────────┬──────────────────────────────── City │ City Own │ Street Sprinkling │Horses and │ │ Wagons? │ │ │ │ ├───────────┬───────────┬──────── │ │ Sprinkle │ S...

─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────── City │ STREET SPRINKLING ├────────────────────┬─────────────┬────────── │ Method of │Total Gallons│ Average │Assessme...

─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────┬───────────── City │ Preventive Work │ Any Unusual │ │ Conditions │ │ with Which │ │ Your │ │ Department │ │ Has to │ │ Con...

Even those communities which have not already provided a proper method of disposal of their sewage know that it must be done sooner or later, and many are preparing for it eithe...

There are few cities which treat their sewage by the process of straining and roughing. This consists of removing the suspended matter by means of rapid straining through beds o...

After the sewage has been distributed on the beds so that the interstices are filled, it is allowed to stand for a time. The bed is then drained and rested. While standing the s...

Dry sludge can be used for fertilizer or for filling low lands or it can be incinerated. Its fertilizing value is disputed except when produced by the activated sludge method. T...

─────────────┬───────────────────┬────────────────────────────── Name of City │ GENERAL DATA │ SEWERAGE SYSTEM ├───────────┬───────┼───────────────┬────────────── │ Average │ Pe...

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Name of City │ SEWAGE PUMPING ├──────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬────────────── │ What │ Gallons │ Daily │ K...

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────── Name of City │ INDUSTRIAL WASTES ├─────────────────┬────────┬──────────────── │ Establishments │ What │ Methods of │ Wh...

─────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────── Name of City │ FINAL TREATMENT ├──────────────┬────────┬──────────────── │ If Not, Why? │Distance│ Any Odor at │ │of Plant...

Very definite conclusions have been reached by experts and officials about the kind of ash can to be used. It is agreed that the size must be limited because of the difficulty o...

The following scheme has been suggested to check up the amount of work done: W, number of collection wagons; V, capacity of one wagon in cubic feet; F, interval between collecti...

─────────────┬───────┬───────┬─────┬───────────┬───────────── Boston, Mass.│ .70│ .73│ 1.73│Back yard. │Galvanized, │ │ │ │ │ not larger │ │ │ │ │ than flour │ │ │ │ │ barrel. B...

─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Name of City │ Description of Collection System │ │ ─────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────...

────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────── │ Ashes and Rubbish ├──────────────────────────────────────────────── │ Philadelphia, Pa. │ ───────────...

In planning districts and force, the findings of the Chicago Civil Service Commission may assist some officials. It required on an average under ordinary conditions three hours...

Some cities collect and dispose of their garbage by contract, others collect by contract and dispose of it themselves, or vice versa, and still others have all the work done by...

Two kinds of plants are used for this method of disposal—crematories and destructors. Many destructors are in operation in America, but of the crematories which have been built,...

─────────────┬───────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬───────┬────── Name │ Method of │By Whom Done│ City Own │ City │ Is │ Disposal │ │Dump? If Not,│ Own │ farm │ │ │Annual...

─────────────┬───────────────┬───────────┬─────┬──────────── Name │ Kind of Plant │ Capacity │When │ Design │ │ │Built│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼───...

─────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┬──────────┬──────────── Name │ Any Odor? │Annual Cost│ By- │What is Done │ │ of │ Products │ with By- │ │ Operation │ │ Products │ │ │ │...

─────────────┬───────────┬─────────────────────────┬────────────── Name │ Annual │Net Cost of Disposal[53] │ Net Profit │ Revenue │ │ │ from By- │ │ │ Products │ │ │ │ │ │ ├────...

“All stables, barns and other places wherein horses or cattle are kept, shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. All accumulations of manure shall be stored in such plac...

The greatest factor in the clean-up movement is the children. Nothing that is done can be accomplished without their help. Of the hundreds of cities interested in clean-up campa...