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Housing (Slum Clearance),
The implementation of Councils five year programme continued but
at a decreased rate by reason of the difficulties of re-housing the persons
displaced from those properties included in the areas dealt with during
the two previous years. Nevertheless it is felt that the insanitary house
problem is being steadily surmounted and it is hoped with an improvement
in the nation's economic and financial circumstances the scheme as laid
down in 1955 will be fructified by 1960. Comparative figures for the years
1956 and 1957 in this branch of the Public Health Inspectors work are
attached: —
1956 Six Clearance Areas declared: —
Laburnum Grove.
Railway Terrace, Radnor Crescent.
Grove Steps.
Hainault Farm Bungalows.
Green Lane.
Mill Road.
No. of dwellings = 58
1957 Two Clearance Areas declared: —
Vicarage Cottages, Ley Street.
Dillys Cottages, Billet Road.
No. of dwellings = 10
This brings the total number of properties dealt with under the five
year scheme to 129 dwellings.
Atmospheric Pollution.
The complete details of one full year's recordings of the triple
three instrument sites at the Town Hall, Gantshill Library and John
Bramston School are furnished hereunder and are not indicative of any
more serious contamination of the town's atmosphere than that applicable
to the East London area as a whole. It is hoped that a year's comparison
with other areas will be available in October 1958.
The particular problems arising from the two small industrial areas
were again to the forefront and in one instance a heavy financial
expenditure was incurred in a effort to obviate the many complaints of
odours generated in the industrial process. H. M. Alkali Works Inspector
is responsible for the control of this particular cause of complaint and
he has endeavoured to cope with the many difficulties arising therefrom. I
am pleased to say that the Clean Air Act powers were not invoked to deal
with a smoke pollution problem as there were no such emissions from this
factory. The areas concerned will be the subject of strict surveillance
during the ensuing twelve months.