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mess-making job of emptying the dust bin and putting its contents
into an unclean basket, to be carried through the house to the
scavenger's cart. It is difficult to introduce and get to work smoothly
at once a new practice, even though it saves trouble, dirt, and nuisance.
In addition to the common prejudice against what is new, the want
of perfect regularity in carrying out the new arrangements creates
some difficulties; but no difficulties have arisen which a little
experience, care, and habit will not prevent, and the Sanitary Committee
feel confident that the introduction of pails as a substitute for
dust bins will be looked upon as an important contribution to comfort,
cleanliness, and health, especially in (where most needed) the denselypopulated
parts of the Parish.
It having been suggested that the scavenging of the principal
thoroughfares on Sunday mornings might be more economically done,
it was referred to the Works and Sanitary Committees to consider
jointly the then mode of performing the work, and whether any and
what improved arrangements might be adopted. The Vestry, in
accordance with a recommendation of the Committees, determined that
in future the work of the Sunday Scavenging shall be included in the
General Contract for Scavenging and Watering.
DISINFECTOR.
The unsatisfactory and expensive course of burning beds and bedding
which have been used by persons suffering from infectious diseases,
and supplying instead new beds and bedding, has long been under
consideration, with a view to its being discontinued or modified.
Disinfection appeared to be the only practicable course. In 1883 the
Medical Officer presented an elaborate report on disinfectors, and the
advisability of the Vestry having one. The subject continued to
engage the attention of the Sanitary Committee, who, at the meeting
of the 20th November, presented the following Report:—
"Your Committee having given this question their careful consideration
beg to Report as follows:-
"On the 18th July your Committee, accompanied by the Medical Officer
of Health and the Surveyor, visited the yard of the Whitechapel Board of
Works, and inspected the Disinfector in use there. The apparatus is a
'Frazier,' which, in its original condition, did not work satisfactorily, and
has been altered and improved by Mr. Struthers, who attended the Committee
and explained the alterations he had made.
" A flock pillow was placed in the chamber with a self-registering thermometer
inside the pillow. The temperature inside the apparatus at the
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