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The Council make an annual grant of fifteen guineas to the
Central Council for Health Education, a body recognised by the
Ministry of Health as the medium through which health education
material is distributed throughout England and Wales. Good use
is made of the services available and posters, leaflets and
other material are frequently obtained from the Central Council
for use in Kensington.
During the year, the Council accepted the offer of a
publishing firm to print, free of cost to the Council, 3,500
copies of a booklet containing information on Civil Defence and
Home Safety. The Public Health Committee co-operated with the
Civil Defence Committee in this matter, so far as the section
dealing with accidents in the home was concerned.
Atmospheric Pollution
The Council continued to maintain the two atmospheric
pollution measuring stations during the year. One is in North
Kensington (St. Joseph's Convent, Portobello Road, W.10) and the
other in South Kensington (Messrs, John Barker's Furniture
Depository, Pembroke Road, W.8). The apparatus at each station
consists of a standard deposit gauge for collecting soluble and
insoluble deposits and a lead peroxide apparatus by means of
which the sulphur content of the air can be estimated each month.
In addition to the above mentioned stations, the Council
established during the year two smoke measuring stations, one at
the public health department, Hornton Street, W.8., and the other
at the public library, Ladbroke Grove, W.11. (It is hoped to
establish a third smoke measuring station in the southern part of
the borough.)
The equipment at the public health department consists of
a smoke filter and a hydrogen peroxide bubbling apparatus. The
smoke filter measures the daily concentration of smoke suspended
in the atmosphere, and the hydrogen peroxide bubbler extracts
the sulphur dioxide content of the atmosphere. Readings are
taken each day, and results are averaged to produce figures for
each calendar month.
The equipment at the public library consists of a smoke
filter only. Measurements are taken three times a week, and
daily and monthly averages are calculated from the results.
All information obtained is forwarded each month to the
Director of Observations at the Fuel Research Station of the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, for correlation
with results obtained from other sites throughout the country.
The following tables set out details of the results
obtained in Kensington during 1955:-