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Window aid Foyer Displays
The window display was used in conjunction with No. 7 Smoke Control Order at Messrs.
Metroglaze premises, Munster Road. The display showed a map of No. 7 Area and the streets
affected and the action to take to obtain grants.
A comprehensive display unit was borrowed from the Solid Smokeless Fuels Federation for
exhibition in the Department's foyer. It consists of two units, one showing the types of solid
smokeless fuels available and the other the advantages from using solid fuel.
Exhaust Fumes from Motor Vehicles
The practice of drawing the attention of vehicle owners to emissions of heavy exhaust from
their vehicles was continued.
During 1963, eight diesel-engined vehicles were observed in the Borough to be emitting dark
smoke of a sufficient density to warrant the attention of the owners being drawn to the fact. All
the firms concerned were most co-operative in immediately having the vehicles withdrawn from
service and examined.
West London Inter-Boroughs' Smoke Control Liaison Committee
Three meetings of this Committee were held during the year for the purpose of exchanging
views on common problems arising from the creation of Smoke Control Areas. The following Local
Authorities are members of this Committee:-
Acton Borough Council
Fulham Metropolitan Borough Council
Barnes Borough Council
Hammersmith Metropolitan Borough Council
Brentford and Chiswick Borough Council
Willesden Borough Council
Richmond Borough Council
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.