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DIRTY DUSTBINS
AND
SLOPPY STREETS.
_A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE
SCAVENGING AND CLEANSING OF
CITIES AND TOWNS._
BY H. PERCY BOULNOIS, M. INST. C. E.,
_Member (by Exam.) of the Sanitary Institute
of Great Britain_,
CITY SURVEYOR OF EXETER.
E. & F. N. SPON,
16, CHARING CROSS.
NEW YORK, 446, BROOME STREET.
1881.
JAMES TOWNSEND, PRINTER, EXETER.
PREFACE.
Some portions of the following pages have already appeared in the
monthly numbers of the _Sanitary Engineer_, and the complete work
is now published with a view to assist Surveyors of Towns and
others who are directly engaged in providing that house dustbins
shall be regularly cleared, and streets kept clean; and also in
the hope that it may be the means of drawing some public attention
to the question, thus showing the householder something of what
is being done for his welfare by Sanitary Authorities, and how
each individual may assist in the good work, instead of, as is
now frequently the case, inadvertently or purposely retarding the
execution of some very necessary though unostentatious sanitary
measures. I am not aware that any book, or even pamphlet, has yet
been written on this subject, and I venture to believe that in
these pages there may be found something to interest all readers.
H. P. B.
EXETER, _May, 1881_.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
SCAVENGING.
_Page_
Town Scavenging or Scavengering--Subject divided into 13
heads--Public Health Act, 1875, and its bearings upon
the question 1