CHAPTER XIX.

SCAVENGING.

The Public Health Act on the subject -- List of duties involved by the clauses of the Act -- What is house refuse? -- Removal of trade or garden refuse -- Position of dust bin -- Objections to fixed bin -- Different methods of collection of refuse -- Public dust bins -- House to house call -- Receptacles brought out into streets -- Carts employed for scavenging -- Life and cost of wooden carts -- Improved sanitary carts -- Disposal of refuse -- Methods adopted in various towns -- Destruction by fire -- Cleansing of streets -- Machinery v. hand labour -- Durability of brooms -- Scavenging at Liverpool -- Quantity of material removed from roads -- Cleansing private courts and alleys -- Removal of snow -- Mr. Hayward on the subject -- Clarke’s apparatus -- Hints on removal of snow -- Street watering -- Several methods described -- Brown’s system -- Mr. Parry on hand- watering -- Headley’s machine -- Street watering in Paris -- Bayley’s Hydrostatic Van -- Mr. Scott on watering and stand-pipes -- Advantage of using disinfectant with water -- Cost of scavenging, &c. -- Heads for a contract -- Administration of work without intervention of contractor the best 221