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