Report of Committee on Disposal of Waste and Garbage; Presented at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Kansas City, October 20-23, 1891 - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0217316360 ISBN 13: 9780217316361

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1892. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. "B." COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF GARBAGE AND NUISANCE- PRODUCING WASTE IN CITIES. By EDWARD CLARK, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y. The first great task that every municipality must undertake, as the initial step toward successfully solving the "garbage and refuse problem," is a thorough education of the masses on the importance and necessity of forever keeping garbage and all nuisance-producing refuse separate from street dirt, ashes, tin cans, bottles, old shoes, etc. This educational crusade must be carried on, in part by appealing to the moral and intellectual sensibilities of the public, and partly by compulsion. The more enlightened and cultured portion of our population, and those who have a just appreciation of the importance and necessity of observing hygienic rules and regulations, need only to have pointed out to them the unwise and dangerous practices to which many of them at times unwillingly resort, to have the evils speedily remedied. On the other hand, in all of our large cities we find a population, whose name is legion, made up of a conglomerate mass from different nations of the earth, who have almost no regard for personal cleanliness, and much less for hygienic requirements, many of whom seem to be in their most natural and satisfactory environment when surrounded by a filthy and nuisance-laden atmosphere. It is to this latter class of individuals that the compulsory educational methods in hygiene must be applied. The foundation upon which a superstructure of compulsion is to be erected must be furnished by the municipality in the shape of rigid and severe ordinances, rigidly and severely enforced. The ordinances relating to this subject, and indeed all health ordinances, should be definite and specific, and so simple that the wayfaring ...

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0217316360
• ISBN 13: 9780217316361
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