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Number of visits to domestic outworkers 132
Number of notices served in respect of unsatisfactory
conditions NIL
Smoke Abatement.
This subject received continued attention during the year and
Government action following the publication of the Beaver Report
is eagerly awaited.
A course of lectures and discussions was held on two afternoons
in February at the Northampton Polytechnic in co-operation with
that body. This was intended for stokers and boilermen and was
attended by about a hundred from this and neighbouring Boroughs.
The Council is represented on both the National Smoke
Abatement Society and the London and Home Counties Smoke
Abatement Advisory Council. On the latter body I have the honour
to serve as a member of the executive committee.
The station erected on the roof of the Health Centre to measure
monthly deposits and sulphur dioxide pollution was maintained.
It will be some considerable time before such recordings can yield
significant information owing to the wide variations which occur
in meteorological conditions.
Twenty complaints were received and 192 observations made
during the year in regard to smoke emission.
Generally speaking I am of opinion that there has been some
diminution of atmospheric pollution in recent years.
Verminous Premises and Articles.
During the year 321 premises were found or suspected to be
verminous, and disinfestation measures were carried out.
Similar measures have been carried out on certain other occasions
on request. In all disinfestation measures were carried out in
412 premises.
The measures adopted have been the spraying of the room
thoroughly with a D.D.T. Solution on one occasion, and the steam
disinfection of the bedding in most cases and whenever considered
necessary.