CLEANER DUST BINS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 313, 30 September 1926, Page 9

CLEANER DUST BINS

ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS IN REPORT OF SANITATION COMMITTEE The Sanitation Committee of Health Week, in an interim report, includes a series of suggestions to householders whereby dust-bins and garbage-tins may be kept in better shape. The points made arc as follow:— 1. Don’t be without a proper regulation dust-bin. It is a breach of the city bylaws. 2. Don’t place your dust-bin in an out-of-the-way nook. It will save time if placed in a convenient spot. 3. Don’t put hot cinders and ashes into your dujt-bin. It is highly dangerous. 4. Don’t put garden refuse in your dustbin. Burn it or bury, it in the garden; it makes good manure. 5. Don’t put broken bottles or broken crockery in your dust-bin. Remember, the refuse men might cut themselves, causing blood-poisoning. 6. Don’t put caustic soda or anything of an explosive nautre in your dustbin.

7. Don’t put unburnable refuse in your dust-bin. Meat, fish, fruit, and jam tins, and one kerosene tin, crushed up, per week, are allowed. 8. Don’t empty sloppy material or water into your dust-bin. Wet refuse is insanitary. Wet refuse will not burn. 9. Don’t fail to put the lid on the dust-bin every time it is used. This will keep the rats away and the flies from breeding. 10. Don’t allow refuse to collect in your yard for Health Week each year. It may be the means of -causing various epidemics and loss of life. 11. Don’t fail to leave your dust-bin out for the refuse collector, if you are going out the day he calls. It will save him making a special trip. 12. Don’t fail to help and advise others of the necessity of keeping your city clean. There will then be no need of a Health Week.

13. Don’t fail to ring telephone 21—729 if you have a complaint The superintendent will attend your needs. 14. Don’t fail to put a sheet of paper in the bottom of your dust-bin. It will allow the refuse to empty out cleanly and preserve the bin. ♦ 15. The most sanitary way to deal with your refuse is to make each daily collections into small paper parcels and to place them in the dust-bin.