Excerpt from The Removal and Disposal of Town Refuse The increasing urgency of the subject, as will be obvious, will be proportionate to the growth of towns, and particularly is this so as regards the question of disposal. Special attention, there fore, has been directed to this, more especially in regard to the disposal of refuse by fire, which has now become general in all large towns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.