30 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SAN JOSE. 



For Student Teachers. 



American Year Book 1914. 



Nelson's Cyclopedia. 



American City, 9 : 355 — "The Collection of Municipal Waste." 



American City, 9 : 65 — Edwards, W. H. "Four Kinds of Co-operation Needed by 



Street Cleaning Departments." 

 Literary Digest, 48 : 548 — "Vacuum Street Cleaner." 

 Literary Digest, 44 : 1223 — "A Woman Worker in an Old Field." 

 American City, 10: 338 — Connell, W. H. "Street Cleaning Methods and Equip- 

 ment in Philadelphia." 

 American City, 9 : 546-S — Scott, S. S. "Street Cleaning of Baltimore." 

 American City, 11 : 469-70 — "Cleaning Pavements Without Sprinkling." Three 



Opinions. 

 American City, 12 : 148-149 — Finegan, T. "Comparative Cost of Sweeping Pave- 

 ments by Horse Drawn Sweepers and by Motor Sweepers." 



Section 2. Garbage and Refuse. 



1. Defined. 



a. Waste food from kitchen. 



b. Ashes. 



c. Rubbish — junk. 



d. Horse manure. 



e. Slaughterhouse waste. 



f. Street Sweeping. 



2. Duties of city regarding disposal of garbage. 



a. City ordinances pertaining to care of garbage. 



3. Control of garbage. 



a. City hiring work done. 



Municipal collection. 



Concrete cases — financial results. 



b. Private control. 



City hiring contractors. 

 Contractors paying city. 



c. Results obtained financially by both methods. 



4. Method of disposal. 



a. To build up land — value of earth covering. 



b. Food for animals — objections. 



c. Buried. 



d. Reduction process. 



e. Utilized for soap and fertilizer. 



f. Incinerated. 



Relative value of these methods. 



5. Transportation of garbage. 



a. The motor vs. the use of horses. 



b. Kind of wagon needed — easy to dump, partitioned, covered. 



c. Sanitation of wagon. 

 0. The Incinerator. 



a. 7*° 'Jurability and ability to burn garbage. 



b. Free from offensive odor? 



7. Family duty towards care of garbage. 



a. Keeping garbage can covered; avoid the (iy feeding; i)revent offensive odors. 



b. Wi'apping of garbage in newspapers. 



8. Methods of accounting for cost of garbage disposal to city. 



Field Work. 



1. Learn method or system of collection in this city. (Ask member of Street 



Department or garbage collector.) 



2. Observe wliether garbage wagon is one that comes up to standard. 



3. Note whether the garbage wagon is clean. 

 4.' Note whether the garbage wagon is covered. 



5. Report as to whether ashes and other garbage are kept separately. 



