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Highways and Cleansing Committee if they could not give a more generous
interpretation to the term "house refuse." The provision of such an
extended service would be an added charge to the Council; but the
Council is already having to meet the cost of moving some accumulations
and is suffering still further when deposits cause flooding of the watercourses.
Support to such arrangements being made should come from those
who are concerned with the obstruction to local watercourses caused by
dumping and which leads to flooding. The Highways and Cleansing
Committee at their meeting in October agreed to give publicity to this
question by way of a letter to all local organisations asking such organisations
in their turn to give publicity to the matter in their journals, etc.
Five local organisations suggested that if arrangements were made for
the collection by the Council free of charge, of such things as old furniture,
mattresses, water tanks, etc. this would do much to prevent the dumping
of such rubbish in watercourses. Feeling that the service provided by the
Council for the special collection on payment of the appropriate charge
of items not regarded as house refuse might not be as widely known in
the Borough as could be desired, the Committee agreed to give publicity
to this service.
The present arrangements for the collection of salvage are that paper
and cardboard from all shops and business premises is collected free of
charge, provided it is kept separate from the normal refuse; the Corporation
provide sacks for this. At ordinary collections, salvageable
material is collected in sacks carried at the back of the vehicles.
Refuse at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. This hospital
has had difficulty in disposing of refuse and had asked for an estimate of
various services. An agreement was reached with the hospital that: (1)
there should be a collection of twelve standard bins weekly, these being
mostly kitchen refuse; (2) the rest of the refuse, being ward dressings,
discarded plaster casts and other rubbish after being burned and rendered
innocuous shall be put in four large 1½ cubic yard containers within the
hospital grounds; (3) A special bin trolley and bin lifting attachment
shall be fitted to one of the Council's dual-tipping vehicles, and the four
large containers were to be emptied twice weekly.
It was agreed that the Council should bear the cost of providing the
containers, trolley and lifting attachment, the hospital to re-imburse the
council over seven years. The whole cost of the additional service was to
be borne by the hospital.
Secondary Access Roads. A number of unadopted roads give rise
to nuisances, particularly the result of dumping rubbish in them. The
solution to this problem is bound-up with the larger issue of the making
UP of private streets.
Fouling of Footpaths by Dogs. The Public Health Committee had
asked the General Purposes Committee to consider giving further publicity
of the Council's Good Rule and Government By-law with regard to
fouling of footpaths by dogs. In the meantime, the Highways and
Cleansmg Committee had been considering making an Order under