Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets

and construction of the cart usually employed in this work of house refuse collec

ly, constructed of an oak frame, with elm or deal sides of considerable height; it holds ab

weight is thrown upon the back of the horse. The height, too, of the cart is often so great as to necessitate the use of a short ladder, up which the scavenger has to[28] climb, before he can discharge the contents of his basket into the cart, sending in the process a shower of offensive dust in every d

from the eye, but that it shall prevent either the liquid mud from being spilled on the ground, or if the cart is being used

admit, but which as a rule does not effectually answer the purpose for which it is intended. In towns where the house refuse is not collected s

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ic is essential to the sanitary well-being of a community. The employment also of wooden carts for this work is bad economy, their rough usage, and the mode adopted for emptying them by "tipping," rendering their life bu

who have styled them by a variety of names, in order to recommend them to the notice of the public. Amongst other names they are

n their cost has not been lost sight of, and they are usually provided with some special means for emptying, either by being completely inverted by a chain and windlass, or by some mechanical arrangement of the tailboard; they are built very low upon their axles, so as to be easily fill

waggons a speciality:-Messrs. Bayley & Co., Newington Causeway, London; Messrs. Cocksedge & Co., of Stowmark