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Chenil Galleries.
This station measures the amount of smoke suspended in the
air and the sulphur dioxide content of the atmosphere. The
apparatus consists of a smoke filter and a hydrogen peroxide
bubbler.
Readings are taken daily by an officer of the Public Health
Department and the results are averaged to produce figures for each
month.
Unfortunately this station did not commence operations until
May 1958 so complete figures for the year are not available.
All information obtained from these readings is forwarded to
the Fuel Research Station for correlation with the results obtained
from other sites throughout the country.
Early in 1959, it is intended to open a programme for the
establishment of Smoke Control Areas, beginning with the Church
Ward, and closing with the North Stanley Ward in 1968. With the
completion of all surveys and the obtaining of Smoke Control Orders
it is anticipated that the whole of the Borough would be smokeless
in approximately ten years.