MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



Street sprinkling to keep down the dust was practiced 

 in many cities and particularly well in Westminster. 

 The discriminating way in which water is employed in 

 Westminster amid a densely congested and rapidly 

 moving street traffic illustrates some of the higher 

 possibilities in the direction of sprinkling, gutter flush- 

 ing, and washing with hose. 



A prompt collection of refuse, such as horse droppings 

 and papers, in order to protect the street against 

 unnecessary distribution of litter was skilfully done in 

 many cities, but best in the city of London. In parts 

 of all cities this plan is applied through the day, and 

 there was scarcely one large city visited which did 

 not afford examples of the proficiency with which this 

 work can be performed. The peculiar merit of the 

 London system lies in the fact that the orderlies who 

 do this work are young, agile, and numerous, and remove 

 the refuse with the utmost possible dispatch in greatly 

 congested thoroughfares. 



I found that it was usual in the greatest cities for 

 organization the heads of street cleaning departments to be 

 cieanS DC- engineers. These chiefs were not uncommonly 

 partments men W jj h ac [ h ac [ considerable experience in 

 this class of work. 



The cleaning and removing of refuse from the streets 

 is recognized to be one of first importance among mu- 

 nicipal sanitary undertakings and a proper performance 

 of the work of managing a street-cleaning department 

 is considered to require thorough competence and a 

 long training. 



The street-cleaning department is often a branch of 

 a larger department which has charge of the construc- 

 tion and repair of all structures between the house lines. 



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