. Health in home and town. ing the officials have been too generous with theoil, and covered plants, sidewalks, trees, and vehicleswith it, much to the discomfort of passers-by. The Use of Tar-Products. — The most satisfactoryresults have been obtained by using a preparation ofcoal-tar products. This is spread on the entire streetand allowed to harden before using. It has the doubleadvantage of not only preventing dust, but also of pre-serving the surface of the street. Such roads will standthe traffic of many heavy automobiles and still be dust-less. Many long roads stretching
. Health in home and town. ing the officials have been too generous with theoil, and covered plants, sidewalks, trees, and vehicleswith it, much to the discomfort of passers-by. The Use of Tar-Products. — The most satisfactoryresults have been obtained by using a preparation ofcoal-tar products. This is spread on the entire streetand allowed to harden before using. It has the doubleadvantage of not only preventing dust, but also of pre-serving the surface of the street. Such roads will standthe traffic of many heavy automobiles and still be dust-less. Many long roads stretching from city to citythroughout the country have been treated in this wayin recent years. j THE CITY STREETS 221 Clean Streets. — It is not dust alone that makesstreets dirty and unsanitary. Old papers, horse-drop-pings, ashes, leaves, chips, fruit-peelings, and otherrubbish are seen in the streets. The value of cleanstreets to a city is very great. They add much to thefine appearance of a city. The residents enjoy walking. The Dust Nuisance and driving better when the streets are clean. Windowsand doors may also be kept open for the better ventila-tion of the houses. How Streets are Cleaned. — When a street is to becleaned a watering-cart first goes over it to lay thedust. Next a machine-sweeper, drawn by one or twohorses, sweeps the dirt into a line on one side of thestreet, near the gutter. Then a squad of men followwith brooms and brush up the dirt into piles along theside of the street. Carts soon follow, and the menshovel the dirt into the carts. The sweepings are thenhauled away to dumps, vacant lots, or to scows that 222 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN take the material out to sea. Some streets are swept byhand instead of by machines. Time for Cleaning Streets. — In the business sectionsof a city most of the cleaning must be done during thenight so as not to interfere with traffic and the day, push carts may be used to pick upwaste paper, fruit-skins, and ot
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