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Fulham 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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MEASUREMENT OF AIR POLLUTION
The Department co-operates in the National Atmospheric Pollution Survey of the Department
of Scientific and Industrial Research by measuring smoke and sulphur dioxide pollution at three
sites in the Borough, viz, Chelsea Secondary School, Clem Attlee Court and Fulham Town Hall.
The Department has also collaborated with the D.S.I.R. and the College of General
Practitioners and certain other Metropolitan Boroughs in a special investigation to find the
connection, if any, between atmospheric pollution and chest complaints. Special equipment is
brought into use at the Town Hall when fogs are forecast to measure the smoke and SO2
continuously for hourly periods, this apparatus functioning automatically.
Figures issued by the D.S.I.R.. show there has been a definite reduction in the smoke
concentration in London over recent years and this can be attributed directly to the introduction
of smoke control areas.
FACTORIES ACTS The position at the end of 1964 was as follows:-
| Factories with mechanical power | 287 |
| Factories without mechanical power | 281 |
The following is a summary of industries and trades registered as factories in the Borough:-
| Antique dealers | 19 | |
| Boot repariers | 34 | |
| Cement Works and Road Surfacing Materials | 7 | |
| Clothing (including tailors, dressmakers, shirtmakersand bathing costume manufacturers) | 30 | |
| Coal Wharf | 2 | |
| Dyers and Cleaners | 4 | |
| Dyers and Cleaners' Receiving Depots | 32 | |
| Electricity Generating Station | 1 | |
| Engineers: Electrical | 22 | |
| General | 39 | |
| Precision | 17 | |
| Sheet Metal | 11 | 89 |
| Exhibition Stand and Display specialists | 7 | |
| Food (in all its branches – pie manufacturers, butchers, etc.) | 26 | |
| Garages (services and repairs) | 49 | |
| Gas Works | 1 | |
| Laboratories | 5 | |
| Launderettes | 17 | |
| Laundries | 9 | |
| Laundry Receiving Depots | 17 | |
| Metal frame spraying | 8 | |
| Oil Depots | 5 | |
| Paint Manufacturer | 1 | |
| Paper Bag and Cardboard Box Manufacturers | 4 | |
| Photographic Processing | 1 | |
| Potteries | 3 | |
| Printers: General | 25 | |
| Silk Screen | 3 | 28 |