Author: W. Francis Goodrich

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781332313860

Excerpt from The Economic Disposal of Towns' Refuse: With Seventy-Five Illustrations At this time, when the question of Disposing of Refuse in a sanitary and final manner is engaging the careful attention of so many Sanitary Authorities both at home and abroad, no apology is needed in introducing a work on this subject. At no time has the question of Sanitary Refuse Disposal received anything like such widespread consideration as at present, and although books dealing with almost every other branch of Sanitary science have been prolific, yet there has been a strange dearth of works on Refuse Disposal. Not only is this so in this country, and in Europe, but in America also. Therefore, in introducing this work to all interested, the author hopes and believes that it will meet a want. Those who are directly responsible for preserving the public health are usually busy men; their multifarious duties often preclude them from delving very deeply into such a subject, until they are requested to report upon the same to the Council. To such men it is hoped that this work will prove to be of much value. Previous works on the subject have practically been confined to the Disposal of Refuse in this country. This has been a mistake, inasmuch as refuse is produced everywhere, and, in many countries, climatic conditions tend to make the Refuse Disposal problem even more acute than is the case in this country. The author has endeavoured, as far as possible, to show how refuse is being dealt with all over the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.