TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Removed “6. Methods and Cost of Collection of Garbage” from p. xii as there is no Table VI in the book.
Footnotes [27] (was Table I N before renumbering), [28] (was Table I R), [32] (was Table II A), [33] (was Table II X), [34] (was Table II C), [35] (was Table II H), and [72] (was Table VII d) are missing their anchors.
Changed “department houses” to “apartment houses” on p. 146.
Silently corrected typographical errors.
Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · One square equals 540 ft. including salaries and wages, cost of new appliances, repairs and maintenance of appliances and all other overheadNote 2 · Includes depreciation and repairs, but not general supervision.Note 3 · “Same force of men can handle one acre as one-half acre, or twice as great a flow.”Note 4 · Does not include interest and depreciation.Note 5 · In winter draw as little as possible; in summer draw as much as possible; the aim being to leave the tanks as free as possible from good sluNote 6 · Operation of Imhoff tanks costs nothing as city allows a man to use two acres of land to compensate him for caring for tank. The septic tankNote 7 · Guaranteed.