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Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and Towns

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Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and Towns

by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

EN·~2 hours·14 chapters

Chapters

14 total

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE

0:04

DIRTY DUSTBINS AND SLOPPY STREETS.

0:21

PREFACE.

6:18

"SCAVENGING."

4:21

HOUSE REFUSE.

5:34

THE DUSTBIN.

8:00

THE COLLECTION OF HOUSE REFUSE.

11:52

THE SCAVENGER'S CART.

4:39

DISPOSAL OF HOUSE REFUSE.

18:59

"STREET CLEANSING."

17:47

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Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and Towns A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and Towns

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Chris Curnow, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2017-03-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54454

Subjects

Public health -- England -- History -- 19th century Refuse and refuse disposal -- History -- 19th century Sanitation -- History -- 19th century TD

About the author

H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

1846–1927

An English municipal engineer and practical writer, he turned the nuts and bolts of Victorian city life into lively books on roads, sanitation, and public works. His work reflects a career spent improving rapidly growing towns.

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