THE COLLECTION OF REFUSE
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—From my office-window in Aldwych recently 1 noticed once again with disgust the manner in which refuse is removed from the surrounding offices and restaurants. The rubbish is brought out in bins which are tipped on to open lorries. As these lorries have no covering of any kind and are already overloaded every puff of wind blows dust, cinders, paper and scraps across the street, scattering litter in a thoroughly untidy and insanitary way.
Quite apart from the uneconomic aspect of collecting rubbish twice over, once from the offices and again off the street itself, it is extraordinary that in a city which professes to belong to the twentieth century such a state of affairs should be allowed to menace the health of the inhabitants. Surely it is time that more modern devices were introduce 1, such as arc in use on the Continent and, I believe, in several provincial towns in this country. In any case it should be possible to replace the present primitive collecting vehicles, whose only claim to modernity is that they are usually motor- drawn. By substituting some form of covered van in which refuse might be cleanly and effectively carted away, a condition which is a disgrace to the premier city of the world might be simply removed.—I am, Sir, &c., MAURICE KENNEDY. 105 Alleyn Park, Dulwich, S.E. 21.
[Our correspondent does not, we think, go far enough in his proposals for reform.—En. Spectator.]
Previous page
