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as garbage is at hand to be burned, the garbage itself constituting the greater 

 part of the fuel required for the operation of the incinerator. 



The fire should be no hotter than necessary, in order to avoid buckling 

 of the shelves. Only dry garbage is to be pushed down into the fire, as wet 

 material will extinguish it. After it has been started, a small quantity of 



wood every hour or so will suffice to 



keep the fire going. A smaller and 

 cheaper multiple shelf incinerator can 

 be made from an empty steel oil 

 drum (Plate 351). If properly oper- 

 ated it will care for the garbage pro- 

 duced by one hundred persons. 



"The incinerator illustrated by 

 Plate 352 is strong and durable and 

 will burn about one thousand pounds 

 of garbage per twelve hours, or the 

 garbage collected in ten cans one and 

 one-half by two feet deep. On the 

 basis of one pound of garbage and 

 refuse per person per day in a camp, 

 an incinerator burning one thousand 

 pounds per day would easily take 

 care of the garbage from about six 

 hundred and fifty campers. For larg- 

 er numbers, either more units could 

 be installed or one unit operated up to its capacity for twenty-four hours." 

 United States Public Health Service. 



Burial of garbage. Garbage may be disposed of by burying in a pit 

 at some point well removed from the areas where it was produced. No 

 other wastes should be buried with the garbage. From time to time the 

 contents of the pit should be sprinkled with calcium hypochlorite. When 

 garbage accumulates to within eighteen inches of the top, the pit is filled 

 with well-tamped earth. 



Disposal of rubbish. The rubbish that accumulates in park and reserva- 

 tion areas usually consists of paper, sticks, fruit skins and small debris of 

 many kinds. Receptacles for rubbish should be placed about all areas used 

 intensively. The closed type made of metal or wood and with a swinging 

 lid are far more satisfactory than those made of wire. The latter soon 

 become battered and when partly filled with papers, fruit skins, etc., are 

 very unsightly. If a garbage incinerator is available, the rubbish which can 

 be burned may be destroyed along with the garbage. Otherwise a small 



PLATE No. 351 



MULTIPLE SHELF INCINERATOR, 

 BARREL TYPE 



(War Department Document No. 897.) 



