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SMOKE ABATEMENT.
The borough contains but few factories or other work-places where there is a considerable
fuel consumption, and thus the problem of smoke abatement is not a very large one. Nevertheless,
in a borough which is essentially residential in character, it is very desirable that the nuisance from
smoke should be reduced to a minimum, and during the year the Council's sanitary inspectors
made 157 special observations with a view to ascertaining whether there were any breaches of the
smoke provisions of the Public Health Acts. Four nuisances were discovered and written intimation
notices were served. In three instances, these resulted in the abatement of the nuisance;
but in one case, in view of the fact that previous serious emissions of black smoke had been observed,
the Public Health Committee authorised the service of statutory notices and the institution of legal
proceedings. The Magistrates imposed a fine of £1, and made an order prohibiting the recurrence
of the nuisance.

In 146 cases, post-mortem examinations were made under the Coroner's warrant.
Forty-six bodies were deposited in the Chapel of Rest, Avondale Park. This building is of
considerable convenience to those poor persons in Notting Dale who live in perhaps one or two
rooms and have no satisfactory accommodation for the bodies of dead relatives pending the day ot
the funeral.
PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.
There are at the Public Baths, a Men's First Class Swimming Bath with a capacity of 120,000
gallons, a Woman's First Class Swimming Bath with a capacity of 45,000 gallons, and a Second
Class Men's Bath and Second Class Women's Bath each of which holds 45,000 gallons.
The water in the four swimming baths is filtered and aerated by pulsometer filters. In the two
first-class baths all the water passes through the filters every 6 hours and in the second-class baths
every 4 hours. During the year the water in the four baths was subjected to bacteriological tests
and the results proved satisfactory.
The charge for admission to the First Class Baths is 8d., and for children under 14 years of age
4d. except on mixed bathing days; 3d. is charged for admission to the Second Class Baths, chilldren
being admitted at half price.
There are 13 Men's and 7 Women's First Class Slipper Baths and 34 Men's and 20 Women's
Second Class Slipper Baths. The charge for a First Class Warm Slipper Bath is 8d. and for a
Second Class, 3d., whilst the charges for a First Class Cold Slipper Bath and for a Second Class
Cold Slipper Bath are 4d. and l½d. respectively. There are 6 special Warm Baths for the use of
which a charge of 1/- is made.

In the wash-house or laundry department, there were 88 wash-tubs in use in 1930. In order
to prevent the wash-tubs being used by professional laundry-women to the exclusion of women
doing their own family washing, the prices to be paid by a user of a wash-tub are as follows:—
2d. for each of the first four hours on any one day.
4d. for the fifth hour on any one day, and
6d. for the sixth and every succeeding hour on any one day