AUBBLSH IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS.
[To run Burros or nue SPIWILTOR*1
Sra,—I should be glad if any of your readers could inform one as to whether there is any body responsible for the removal and disposal of rubbish in country districts. I have written to the Parish Council, and have been informed that it does not come within their province. I have asked a District Councillor, who told me that it was not their work. In urban districts the streets are cleansed and measures are taken for scavenging. In the country refuse and rubbish accumulate and no one attempts to remove the disorder. Paper lies on field and down till blown into ditches and hedges, where it remains in unsightly accumulations, together with broken bottles and bits of straw, whilst occasional dead birds or rats are left where they lie. No provision is made for the collection or disposal of domestic rubbish, and to orderly householders it becomes a problem where to bestow the ever-increasing medley of empty tins, broken crockery, and worn-out utensils generally. To the poor this is no problem. They fling their refuse into the nearest copse, hedge, ditch, or stream, rendering hideous the vicinity of any cottage. Nor are the cottagers really to be blamed, considering no place is provided for this purpose, and no means supplied for carting the rubbish elsewhere. I should be glad to know if any regula- tions exist on the above question, or whether it is the fate of the country to he spoilt by uncollected and ever-increasing
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