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Melbourne Won't Wash
When the three new street flushers arrive
from Euglund this week, the City Council
will be equipped with tho most up-to-date
plant for keeping the city clean.
In the cities of England and America
simiiar machines go out at night when the
city is asleep, nnd by morning the streets
are washed and scrubbed as clean as any
good housewife could demand.
Unfortunately, we cannot yet hope for
that in Melbourne. This is a dusty city and
needs constant washing, bnt, except for one
or two of our modern highways, it is a city
that cannot be washed.
Flushing and scrubbing at ordinary
metalled roads merely turns the- surface of
the road into mud which, when It dries
again, becomes dust. The real cause, of the
dust evil in Melbourne Is that' we cannot
properly get rid of the dirt that accumulates
in tlie city streets. Concrete or block sur
faces can he washed. The dirt and dust can
he flushed off tho surface down the drains.
Therefore a city of blocked or concrete
streets can he made as clean ns n new pin
every morning. ,
So if we hope to keep Melbourne clean
we must first make streets that we can
wash. The day of the metalled 6treet in
the city is past. It will not entry heavy
modern traffic' and It will not conform to the
modern standards of cleaullucss. Tho experi
ments that local municipalities have made
In laying down small strips of concrete road
have been sufficiently encouraging to justify
the City Council now selecting one of the
dustiest of its metalled thoroughfares and
turning it into a concrete highway. If the
advantages ure as we believe they will t-c,
the reconstruction of all the city straffs
would, follow as: a matter of.jppurse.
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