The Removal of Garbage

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Excerpt from The Removal of Garbage: Prepared for Free Distribution by the North Carolina Board of HealthThe management of househoéd ofial will be first treated. This may be considered under three classes, viz: 1. The fragments of food, scraps, kitchen grease, moist solids or liquids known as swill. 2. Ashes, dry house and yard sweepings. 3. Night soil. In every well-managed house hold the first two should be kept in separate receptacles for convenient and economical disposal The receptacle for swill should be a covered half-barrel, a pork barrel or any other water-tight vessel. The receptacle for ashes should be m a place sufficiently removed from the dwelling or out houses to avoid the chances of fire from carelessness of ser vants. The swill should be removed twice a week at least, and in the case of hotels, boarding houses or large families it should be done daily. The dry garbage, all denoted un der the general term ashes, should be removed weeklv from dwellings, and also from stores and factories.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.