Elimination of public dumps, prospective early elimination of many more.
Hundreds of new street litter cans.
Cleaner yards and vacant lots.
Distribution of thousands of fruit and shade trees.
Collection of combustible waste by Salvation Army, relieving Street Cleaning Department, and reducing dump evil.
Development of community spirit through united action in a movement for public welfare.
The fact that most cities have repeated their campaigns from year to year should convince those which have not yet inaugurated the movement that the effort is well worth while. There are, however, a few large cities, New York being one, in which the congestion of work which a campaign entails creates a temporary situation which is unsatisfactory and expensive. These municipalities, and even many of those which have annual campaigns, are advocating more methodical care of light rubbish throughout the year, thus avoiding such a large spring cleaning. As a remedy several cities have lengthened the period of cleaning to several weeks. Generally speaking, however, clean-up campaigns justify the effort and extra expense by making safer, cleaner, healthier and more beautiful cities.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Removed “6. Methods and Cost of Collection of Garbage” from p. [xii] as there is no Table VI in the book.
- Footnotes [[27]] (was Table I N before renumbering), [[28]] (was Table I R), [[32]] (was Table II A), [[33]] (was Table II X), [[34]] (was Table II C), [[35]] (was Table II H), and [[72]] (was Table VII d) are missing their anchors.
- Changed “department houses” to “apartment houses” on p. [146].
- Silently corrected typographical errors.
- Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.