PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 359 
A Note upon Scavenage. 
By J. Asusurton Tuompson, M.D. (Brux.), San. Sci. Cert. 
(Camb.) 
[Read before the Sanitary Section of the Royal Society of N.S.W., 
19 October, 1886.] 
THE removal of dirt from a single dwelling is called cleansing. 
Scavenage is the cleansing of aggregated dwellings by public 
authority. It can be properly done only by co-operation of all 
the inhabitants, and the method to be adopted falls for considera- 
tion, therefore, especially within the province of the aldermen: 
that is, within the province of those members of the community 
who are chosen from the whole number to direct the forces whic 
co-operation renders available into the most useful channels. 
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occasion of my addressing you is the tendency which is plainly 
perceptible in public bodies to seek after cheap, as distinguished 
expect that waste, accumulated under the a 
city life should rt that life in any sound comme sense, 
, eemg ee z Those who flatter them- 
on consideration, I believe. 
render articles of much greater acknowledge ; 
ndling ; and they forget that, although their market will fluc- 
tuate, they must yet continue uniforml 
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munity which regards the removal of 
ame transaction (in which, pe 
siderable sums unless some Immediate P I a 
seen) starts from false premisses, and strives to. seize a chimera. 
