MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



nozzle is held by one man while two others manage 

 the hydrants, operate brooms and squeegees, and warn 

 off vehicles with lanterns. The nozzle is f inch in 

 diameter. The pressure of water is 60-80 pounds per 

 square inch at the hydrants. 



Special attention is given to streets in the vicinity 

 of markets where business is resumed at an early hour 

 Market and where the difficulties of street cleaning 

 places are greatest. In the neighborhood of Billings- 

 gate fish market the streets must be thoroughly 

 cleansed, the catch basins flushed or emptied and dis- 

 infected, street dirt removed, and the pavements grav- 

 elled soon after midnight, so that the garden produce 

 shall lose no time in reaching its destination through 

 bad travelling. Little can be done here in the day- 

 time owing to the excessive congestion of vehicles and 

 pedestrians. The market opens at 5 A.M. 



A removal of house refuse from all premises in London 

 at least once each week was made compulsory by a 

 collection of by-law of the County Council in 1893. This 

 House Refuse \Q i systematic scavenging in those parts 

 of the Metropolis where it did not exist already, in 

 place of the old plan whereby dustmen perambulated 

 the streets and removed the refuse on the application 

 of the occupiers of houses. 



Difficulty is experienced in some sections in collect- 

 ing the refuse through the unwillingness of house- 

 holders to permit collection, the number of these re- 

 fusals in Hackney alone amounting in 1905 to some 

 five or six thousand per week. It is to be expected 

 that this trouble can be overcome, for refusal con- 

 stitutes obstruction, and for this a penalty can be 

 enforced. 



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