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12. PUBLIC CLEANSING. The Director of Public Cleansing
has kindly supplied the following information:—
Refuse Collection.
House and Trade refuse is collected weekly, with the exception
that refuse from certain blocks of flats is collected twice weekly.
The amount of refuse collected during the year was 29,440 tons.
The separate collection of waste paper from business premises
free of charge has been maintained. The amount collected from
this sourcc during the year was 720 tons.
Refuse Disposal.
Refuse is disposed of by a Separation and Incineration Plant
which has handled 30,619 tons. Salvage materials amounting to
3,792 tons were sold for £21,684.
Street Cleansing.
The new system of street sweeping by the use of pedestrian
controlled electric trucks, each with an operator and four street
orderlies, continues to give a frequency of sweeping of at least once
every seven days.
Public Conveniences.
The increase in use of the free washing facilities at the two staffed
Conveniences in the Borough has been maintained during the year.
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