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DEPARTMENT SANITATION [1 record]

Record 1 1978-10-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Municipal Administration
  • Waste Management
CONT

Most municipalities maintain departments of sanitation, but enlightened areas are beginning to realize that the taxpayers may get a better break from private contractor control of collection, haulage and disposal. If this trend continues ... eventually ... the city sanitation departments [will be] possibly acting as monitors for the private service contractors.

OBS

In England and on the Continent sanitation is more truthfully called "public cleansing".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration municipale
  • Gestion des déchets
DEF

service d'enlèvement des ordures sur la voie publique.

OBS

Certains dictionnaires français (le LALAN de 1971 et le GILOS de 1976) limitent le rôle de ce service au nettoyage des voies publiques, car la définition qu'ils en donnent ne fait pas mention de l'enlèvement des ordures.

Spanish

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