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First Annual Message of Archibald Johnston, 1918 [continued]
Incineration in the crematory owned and operated by the city is today considered the most perfect sanitary method for disposing of this wet and this dry medium of disease transmission.
Recommendation. THE SUBJECT 1S RECOMMENDED FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
In some cities the incinerating plant is located at the sewage disposal works to facilitate the destruction of solids screened from the sewage. The point or points to be selected for the crematories should be with a view to requiring the medium length of haul for the collecting vehicles, always bearing in mind, however, that no furnace and its surrounding premises can be relied upon on all occasions to operate without some offense to the immediate neighborhood.
Street sweepings are generally utilized for filling up lowlands not to be used for residential purposes.
Street Pavements and Transportation. The city inhabitants necessarily depend for transportation on the common carriers, such as street railways, steam railways, bus lines and express companies. All of these utilities use the public highways. The steam railroads cross the highways at grade or above or beneath them. The street railways, buses and express companies, like other vehicles, operate on and along the highways and the public bridges.
It is common knowledge that, with a few exceptions, the surfaces of our streets and alleys are in a deplorable condition and that one of the pressing needs of the community is the permanent paving of all the streets. The problem must be met and solved a it, has been in other municipalities of Bethlehem's size. We cannot afford, however, to spend our money for costly pavements until the lines
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