. Health in home and town. l disease germs are killed. Fifth, morethan one plant can be built, which would reduce therunning expenses by shortening the distance for , only one collection of waste is necessary and thedifferent materials do not have to be kept separate. City Crematories. — A crematory usually consists ofa long narrow building with a very high building may be divided into two rooms, a smallfurnace room and a long packing room. Through thecenter of the packing room runs an endless steel belt,which is level for part of the distance, and then risesalong an i
. Health in home and town. l disease germs are killed. Fifth, morethan one plant can be built, which would reduce therunning expenses by shortening the distance for , only one collection of waste is necessary and thedifferent materials do not have to be kept separate. City Crematories. — A crematory usually consists ofa long narrow building with a very high building may be divided into two rooms, a smallfurnace room and a long packing room. Through thecenter of the packing room runs an endless steel belt,which is level for part of the distance, and then risesalong an inclined plane. On either side of the leveltrack are large wooden bins which connect with large THE CITY REFUSE 207 presses in the basement. The elevated part of thebelt is directly over a platform above the furnace. How the Refuse is Burned. — A city cart filled withrefuse drives through the doorway into the dumps the material on the platform above thesteel belt, which carries it along between the two rows. Sorting out Salable Refuse of bins. Here men are stationed who take out paper,cardboard, rags, clothing, carpets, leather, rubber,bottles, and tins and put each in its proper bin. Allarticles that are salable — about one fourth of the en-tire amount—are taken off the steel belt as it travelsbetween the two rows of men. The material pickedout is of such value that contractors are willing topay $ per ton for it. In New York, the weeklyprivilege of picking out material has sold for sumsvarying from $1175 to $1920. The worthless ma- 208 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN terial is carried over and upward, and finally dropsoff the belt into the furnace. The sorted materialthat has dropped into bins in the basement is thenpressed, and made into bales ready to be sold andcarried away. The heat from the burning refuse is thesource of power for the moving belt, for lighting the
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