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fires, especially for cooking purposes, has made the refuse
of a more offensive character than formerly. An ordinary
cooking range is capable of burning much vegetable and
animal debris without offence, but where gas is used such
facilities do not exist. It is true that it would be quite
easy to arrange in every house a small crematorium heated
by gas, but such an appliance, to be of any use in assisting
to a solution of dealing with the house refuse, must be
adopted generally, and this general adoption is not at all
probable.
At the present time business houses, flats and public
institutions are dealt with specially, but there remain a
number of exceptionally large houses from which the dust
is only removed once a week, and there is, without doubt,
some nuisance, especially in the warmer months, from this
cause.