Return as to scavenging in urban districts. 1914.

  • Great Britain. Public Health Department.
Date:
1915
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Return as to scavenging in urban districts. 1914. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Towns with Miscellaneous Moveable Heceptacles—continued. Dover Ebrw Vale Erith Folkestone Gelligaer Goole Gosport and Alverstoke Grantham Hartlepool Hereford Keighley Kettering King’s Lynn Llanelly Lowestoft Maesteg ... Mountain Ash Ogmore and Garw Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Ramsgate Rochester Royal Leamington Spa Rugby Salisbury Shrewsbury Stafford Taunton ... Todmorden Torquay . Tredegar ... Twickenham 30 dry a.shpits, betw'een 2,000-3,000 galvanised-iron bins, about 5,000 others, chiefly galvanised pails. 2,567 iron receptacles. 5,000 galvanised-iron bins, 1,500 wooden boxes, galvanised pails and baths. 200 dry ashpits, 7,000 galvanised-iron bins, 300 wooden boxes. 26 dry ashpits, remainder buckets or boxes. 125 wet and 52 dry ashpits, 1,500 galvanised-iron bins, 3,095 pails. 164 dry ashpits, 1,000 galvanised-iron receptacle.s, 5,000 bins without cover.s, baths and buckets. About 30 dry ashpits, 300-400 galvanised-iron bins, remainder wooden boxes, old buckets, old galvanised baths, &c. 5 dry ashpits, remaindei- buckets and boxes. A few dry ashpits, some galvanised-iron bins, remainder lioxes, tins, buckets, &c. 38 wet and 18 dry ashpits, 9,000 oak tubs and 6 galvanised-iron bins. 606 galvanised-iron bins, 6,050 boxes. 100 dry ashpits, 3,500 galvanised-iron bins, 912 boxes, tins and Ijarrels. 6 dry ashpits, 250 galvanised-iron bins, 6,500 boxes, buckets and barrels. 100 dry ashpits (used for garbage only), 8,083 galvanised- iron bins. All suitable covered receptacles. All ordinary house buckets or wooden boxes. 49 public cast-iron liins, remainder buckets, boxes, pails, &.C. 400 galvanised-iron bins, remainder boxes, old baths, tins, &c. 10 dry ashpits, 300 galvanised-iron bin.s, 10,000 jmils, wooden buckets and boxe.s. 61 dry ashpits, 2,231 galvani.sed-iron bins, 5,563 buckets, boxes, tins, &c. The whole town is provided with moveable receptacles of various kinds. Aliout 20 dry ashpits, remainder galvanised-iron bins and other moveable receptacles. 159 dry ashpits, 4,414 galvanised-iron bins, 1,527 wooden boxes, buckets, &c. 20 dry ashpits and 5,000 wooden boxes and galvanised- iron l)ins. 4 dry ashpits, 1,000 galvanised-iron bins, 4,214 other movealde receptacles. A few dry ash]>its, 1,890 galvanised-iron bins, remainder wooden boxes, iron pails without covers, &.c. 20 dry ashpits, 50 galvanised-iron bins, 5,120 wmoden tubs. 50 dry ashpits, 300 galvanised-iron bins, 9,700 buckets wooden boxes, &c. ’ 108 dry ashpits, 525 galvanised-iron bins, about 5,000 iron pails, buckets and wooden tubs. Some dry ashpits, about 70 per cent, galvanised-iron bins, and about 30 per cent, other moveable receptacles* chiefly old buckets. ’ 41 dry ashpits, 12 galvanised-iron bins, remainder buckets boxes, &c. ’ 300 dry ashpits, 6,048 galvanised-iron bins, 142 tubs boxes, &c. ’