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Title: Health in home and town
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Bertha Millard, b. 1870
Subjects: Sanitation, Household Public health
Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Belt Carrying Refuse to Furnace building with electricity, and for heating the buildingby steam. This is certainly a clean and safe way ofdisposing of refuse of all kinds. Snow on City Streets. — A heavy fall of snow in agreat city causes a large amount of trouble, work, andexpense. The storm may damage the wires, delaytraffic, and interfere with business. Along the mainstreets, the trolley snow-plow throws the snow off thecar-tracks to the sides. Teaming and traffic of all kindsare very difficult until the piles of snow are removed. The Removal of Snow. — If the fall of snow is THE CITY REFUSE 209 followed by a few days of melting, there is a stillgreater need of removing it and clearing the guttersso that the water may run off into the sewers. Snowis carted off in large wagons that have swinging sidesor that dump from the rear. Sometimes the city teamsremove the snow; sometimes the entire work is let out
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Garbage Crematory at Buffalo to contractors, who do the work at a certain priceagreed upon. Dumping Snow. — When a city is situated on ariver, lake, or ocean, the snow is often carted anddumped into the water. When the water is a longdistance away, snow is sometimes dumped in vacantlots in or near the city. In warm climates, and whenthere is little snow, it may be washed into the sewers,if they are large enough to carry off the additionalwater. 210 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN The Expense. — The cost of removing snow fromcity streets must vary according to the amount of snow,and the location of the city. In the city of New York,the annual cost of removing snow is nearly $3000 a mile,or thirty-three cents a cubic yard. Public Cleanliness. — While personal cleaiiliness re-quires a great amount of time, work, and expense,public cleanliness presents still greater problems. Butit must be remembered that the health of a city dependsupon the right solution of these questions. Summary. — 1

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