Public works . s guaranteed that the incineratorwill operate at a cost of 54 cents per ton for labor,exclusive of the cost of handling ashes, and that nocommercial pull will be necessarv if the rubbishcontent is not less than 30 per cent by weight of the material burned, which is about the proportion forNew Orleans refuse. The removal steel containers used on the trailerswill adapt themselves to the contemplated incineratoroperations, as they will permit storage of garbagewithin tlie incinerator building in a sanitary way. Disposal by incineration seems to meet popularapproval as well as being
Public works . s guaranteed that the incineratorwill operate at a cost of 54 cents per ton for labor,exclusive of the cost of handling ashes, and that nocommercial pull will be necessarv if the rubbishcontent is not less than 30 per cent by weight of the material burned, which is about the proportion forNew Orleans refuse. The removal steel containers used on the trailerswill adapt themselves to the contemplated incineratoroperations, as they will permit storage of garbagewithin tlie incinerator building in a sanitary way. Disposal by incineration seems to meet popularapproval as well as being the conclusion reached bya committee of engineers who visited many cities inthe East and Nortli and who, taking everything intoconsideration, decided that disposal by incinerationwas the best solution of New Orleans problem. For the above information we are indebted toJohn Klorer, city engineer. The work is under thecharge of the Department of Public Property, Engi-neering Division, Wilbert Black, GARBAGE BEING DUMPED ON BURNING AREARefuse already burned is shown in foreground Sand Hog Work Less Dangerous The work of the sand hog, or laborer who ex-cavates in compressed air as in sub-aqueous tunnels,is reported by the U. S. Bureau of Klines to be lessdangerous than it was a few years ago. Observationsmade by Dr. Edward Levy, consulting physiologistof the bureau, during the progress of tunnel workin and about New York City, indicate that the meth-ods employed there are so improved as almost toeliminate severe cases of compressed air illness. Knowledge of the cause, character and treat-ment of compressed air illness is still limited to avery few physicians. The cause is a too rapid de-compression after exposure to high pressures, andthe symptoms are vertigo, difficult breathing, local-ized pains, affections of the central nervous systemand unconsciousness or collapse. The formation ofgas bubbles of nitrogen in the body fluids and tissuesis the accepted theory at pr
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