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6. What is the final disposal of garbage in your city? Judge from your reading as 



to whether there are better methods of disposal. 



7. What can you and those in your home do to help make the garbage problem of 



the city less serious? 

 S. Make sanitary survey of home surroundings. (See Sanitary Survey sheet.) 

 9. Is the incinerator of your city satisfactory? If not, why? 

 10. What is the cost to the city of the disposal of garbage? How does this compare 



with other cities of same class? (Inquire of the Street Department.) 



References. 



Pupils' Eeadings. 



American City, 8 : 59 — Very, E. D. "Two New Trucks for Collecting Ashes, 

 Street Sweepings, and Garbage." 



American City, 8 : 402 — McLain, Wm. H. "Sanitary Methods of Garbage Collec- 

 tion." 



American City, 9 : 111 — Hering, Rudolph. "How to Attack the Sewage and 

 Garbage Problem." 



American City, 9 : 35G — Morse, W. F. "Collection of Municipal Waste." 



American City, 10 : 379 — Hoffman, F. W. "The Municipal Collection of Manure, 

 Columbus, Ohio." 



American City, 10 : 55 — Greeley, S. A, "Refuse Disposal in Small Cities and 

 Towns." 



American City, 12: 196-98 — Hering, Rudolph. "The Prevention of Odors at City 

 Refuse Disposal Works." 



World's Work. 28 : 472 — "Seattle Making a Profit From Disposal of Garbage." 



Survey, 31: 776 — "Chicago's Struggle for Scientific Garbage Collection." 



Survey, 32 : 445 — "Chicago's Plan for Disposal of Waste." 



Technical World, 21 : 428 — Hallock, G. "Houses from a City's Waste." 



Technical World, 23 : 529— McMillan, R. H. "Abolishing the Garbage Man." 

 For Student Teachers. 



Nelson's Cyclopedia. 



American Year Book, 1914. 



American City, 9 : 244-5 — "Changing Garbage Disposal from an Expense to a 

 Revenue." 



American City, 9 : 354 — Norton, Geo. H. "Recoverable Values of the City Waste 

 Problem." 



United States Agricultural Year Book, 1914 : 295-310— Turrentine, J. W. "Prepa- 

 ration of Fertilizer from Municipal Waste." 



Section 3. Sewage. 

 1.. Reasons for a sewage system. 



a. To conserve health. 



b. To dispose of flood and surface waste. 



c. To dispose of liquid and kitchen waste. 



d. To dispose of human waste. 



2. Taking care of sewage. 



a. Laying of sewage pipes. 



b. Wisdom of having good engineering work done. 



c. Purification of house waste. 



d. Separation of liquid house waste and storm and surface water. Advantages. 



Objections. 



3. Treatment of sewage or method of disposal. 



a. In streams diluted — false theory of self purification of waste. 



b. In lakes — becomes a sewage pool. 



c. In harbors — may interfere with navigation. Other objections. 



d. Chemical precipitation. 



e. Electricity. 



f. Intermittent filtrations. 



Septic tank process. 



Artificial bed for final treatment. 



g. Sewage farms. 



