MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



control when it falls from the receptacle in which it is 

 placed or is blown out of its receptacle by the wind. 

 From the moment when the refuse leaves its appointed 

 place by accident and not design, its collection and 

 ultimate disposal become increasingly difficult and 

 expensive. 



The practical means of keeping refuse from becoming 

 scattered and, in particular, the ways of preventing it 

 from littering the streets, deserve careful consideration. 



People should not throw refuse into the streets or put 

 it where it is likely to get there. Ordinances should 

 sanitary exist to prevent careless practices in this 



Ordinances 



and the Police direction and the police should see that the 

 ordinances are enforced. It is as much the duty of the 

 police to enforce the sanitary ordinances of a city as to 

 arrest criminals. If it is proper for the police to regulate 

 the movement of vehicles, to facilitate the transit of 

 street cars, and make safe the movements of pedestrians, 

 it is no less their duty to prevent the streets from being 

 made a dumping-place for wastes. Yet the police of a 

 city are usually far from appreciating their responsibility 

 in this matter. It is too often thought by the members 

 of the force to be beneath the dignity of a police officer 

 to call the attention of a pedestrian or householder to 

 the fact that he is transgressing a city ordinance by 

 throwing refuse upon the pavements. It is not a ques- 

 tion of trouble or of time. It would consume but an 

 inconsiderable fraction of the day's work for the police 

 to keep an eye open for persons who drop their news- 

 papers in the streets. To prohibit over-filled carts 

 of coal, ashes or sand from dribbling their contents 

 upon freshly-cleaned pavements would be no more 

 difficult nor time-consuming for police officers than 



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