Where water must be pumped and carried by hand much strength and nerve force are expended which might be kept for more important work
Photograph by Brown Bros.
A "brook put to work" may be utilized in supplying water to a farmhouse
From a consideration of water supply we pass naturally to questions of the disposal of waste, and here again is found a subject too often neglected both in town and in rural communities. In the city the problems are not individual ones in the main, but rather questions of the best management and use of the public utilities concerned. Does the average city householder know what becomes of the waste removed from his door by the convenient arrival of the ash man, the garbage man, the rubbish man? Does he know whether this waste is disposed of in the most sanitary way? Does he consider whether it is removed in such a way as to be inoffensive and without danger to the people through whose streets it is carried? Does he know anything of the cost to the city of waste disposal? Is it merely an expense, and a heavy one, for him in common with other taxpayers to bear? Or is the business made to pay for itself? If not, is it possible to make it pay? Does any community make the waste account balance itself at the end of the year?
Photograph by Brown Bros.
An objectionable garbage wagon. Disposal of waste is a subject too often neglected both in urban and in rural communities
Photograph by Brown Bros.