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tenement classes, to the great comfort, convenience
and cleanliness of the occupants, who are
spared the nuisance of having either to go to
a public dust-bin, which was generally a public
abomination, or to have their rooms and passages
littered with dust for want of proper receptacles.
It would be a great advantage from a public
health point of view if the adoption of this plan
could be extended to the whole of the City,
which would ensure a more prompt and regular
removal of refuse by the scavengers, but as this
would involve considerable expense, some
arrangement should be made with the occupiers
for the hire or purchase of skips in houses above
a given rating ; the responsibility of keeping
the things in a cleanly condition and proper
state of repair being undertaken by the Superintendent
of Cleansing.
If this suggestion should not commend itself
to the Public Health Department it may be
worth while to consider whether the list of streets
included in the order of the Commissioner of
Police in the following terms might not be
added to with advantage:—