(a.) The best form of vehicle for carrying and spreading the water.
(b.) The number, position, and description of standpipes.
(c.) Whether vehicles, or fixed standpipes and hose are best.
(5.) If the local authority do not impose a byelaw they must themselves cleanse the “footways and pavements adjoining any premises;” and this in excessively muddy weather, or after a heavy fall of snow, is no inconsiderable work.
(6.) An urban authority may make provision for the “temporary deposit and collection of dust, ashes and rubbish.”
This involves public dust-bins being placed in suitable positions in the town, the points in connection with this work being,
(a.) The most suitable sites for such accommodation.
(b.) The materials and form of which they shall be constructed.
Having thus stated all the heads under which the work of scavenging may be grouped, it is necessary to decide what is “house refuse;” for unless this is satisfactorily settled, considerable onus and expense will be put upon the local authority if they are to include in the removal trade, garden, and other similar refuse.[159]
It may be assumed that all house refuse which it is the duty of the scavenger to remove, is really so removed by the direction of the local authority without dispute, but that the following articles, which frequently find their way into a domestic dust-bin, are not in the strict terms of the Act expected to be removed by him. (1) Plaster from walls and brick bats, (2) Large quantities of broken bottles and flower pots, (3) Clinkers and ashes from foundries and green-houses, (4) Wall paper torn from the rooms of a house, (5) Scrap tin (but not old tins which have contained meats, &c., and which, although very useless and bulky, may be fairly assumed to be house refuse), (6) All garden refuse such as grass cuttings, dead leaves, and the loppings from trees and shrubs.[160]