MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



tricts, each of which is let to separate contractors. The 

 area cleaned by city labor comprises the most thickly 

 populated portions of Westminster and nearly all the 

 small business houses, while two of the three divisions 

 of the contract work contains the best residences of 

 the city where many of the houses are occupied for 

 only a portion of the year. A comparison of the cost 

 of the two systems of work is shown in the following 

 table : 



1905-6 1906-7 



By contract .$2.82 $2-091 

 By direct labor 3.55 3.45 j * 



There are 17,377 premises from which refuse is col- 

 lected by contract and 27,486 from which refuse is 

 collected by city labor. The cost of the removal of 

 house refuse by contract is $38,175.30. The total 

 tonnage removed by the city laborers for the year 

 1906-7 was estimated at 55,700 tons of 2240 pounds 

 each. Taking an average of three yards to a ton and 

 reckoning the cost of removal at about 56 cents per 

 yard, this amounts to a total of, say, $94,740.84 per 

 annum for the total cost of collection and disposal of the 

 house refuse collected from the area where city labor 

 is employed. 



Each district foreman where city labor is employed 

 is responsible for the removal of refuse, and for this 

 purpose the whole city is divided into two parts each 

 under the supervision of a refuse inspector. Com- 

 plaints and similar matters concerning the service are 

 dealt with directly through the City Hall. The refuse 

 inspectors visit the office twice daily to deal with these 

 questions, at 9:30 in the morning, and again in the 



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