History of Sanitation

HISTORY OF SANITATION 117 on, the value of garbage destructors became more widely known, and within recent years the need for a sanitary and convenient method for disposing of waste matters has been occupying the attention of those in charge of institutions devoted to the care of the sick, infirm, feeble, and to the control of the criminal. In addition to the superintendents of hospitals, prisons, sanatoria and asylums, those in charge of medical schools and laboratories, hotels, business houses and municipalities have given the matter much considera- tion, and at the present time most of the large cities of the United States have constructed garbage destructors, or are seriously considering the step, while the principal hos- pitals, hotels, department stores, medical colleges and pub- lic institutions throughout the country have already in- stalled destructors. Likewise, garbage destructors have been constructed at all of the United States Government army posts.