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80 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Removal and Collection of House Refuse.
The method of removal and collection of refuse in the
Borough is a combined system of mechanical and horse traction
carried out by contract. The collecting wagons are hauled
from house to house by horses, and when full are drawn up
mechanically on to a motor carrier which takes the refuse to
the place of disposal. An empty wagon is left to replace the
full one.
The Contractor has the use of the Council's Destructor,
and about two-thirds of the refuse is dealt with at the Destructor,
where it is sorted and sifted. Part of the sifted
refuse is removed and part is burnt in the Destructor furnace.
The remaining third of the house refuse is taken down the
Thames by barge from two riverside wharves in the Borough,
and disposed of below Barking.