MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



cooperation not only on the part of city officials, but 

 with householders, with persons engaged in 



Cooperation . ' r 



with House- various trades and occupations, and with the 



holders , ,. . , 



public at large. 



It is indispensible that householders should place their 

 house refuse in suitable receptacles for temporary storage 

 and removal. It is equally important that the public 

 scavenger should keep faith with the people and send 

 his carts round punctually and often enough to collect 

 the refuse prepared for him before its presence becomes 

 unduly offensive. Household refuse is a source of incon- 

 venience and annoyance from the moment it is produced 

 and no sort of receptacle or other provision for storage 

 on the premises will take the place of frequent collections. 



The littering of market places affords an illustration 

 of the extent to which pavements may, under special 

 preventable circumstances, become unavoidably littered, 

 avoidable ^ n ms P ec tion of any congested business or 

 Littering tenement district will reveal conditions of 

 littering, most of which can, and should, be prevented. 

 In fact these two illustrations indicate the practical 

 limits to which preventive treatment can be carried to 

 keep streets clean. It would impose an impossible 

 burden upon market men to insist that none of their 

 refuse should fall upon the pavements; in this case 

 there is nothing to do but clean the market well and 

 often. On the other hand, in tenement districts and 

 congested business quarters, much preventive work can 

 be done by the persons who use the streets. When he 

 was Street Cleaning Commissioner of New York, Colonel 

 Waring formed leagues of school children to teach their 

 parents the importance of refraining from throwing 

 refuse upon the pavements. 



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