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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Greenwich 1962

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

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Table: sulphur dioxide as calculated on readings taken at the Council's station during 1962 :— Daily Mean Concentration of Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide

sulphur dioxide as calculated on readings taken at the Council's station during 1962 :— Daily Mean Concentration of Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide

MonthTown HallTown Hall
Smoke Mu/m3Sulphur Dioxide Mu/m3
Daily ValueDaily Value
AverageHighestLowestAverageHighestLowest
November 196121657871325756125
December „34472072479780171
January 1962239590110301926122
February „185350100327569157
March „252611101302683115
April „12322544249462106
May902113914735939
June „561321111929731
July781283412421751
August „671303010022542
September „1032281611421032
October „24056410833279069
November „26041692344526100
'December „6612,896609024,429144
January 19632769601164281,063156
February „308644144418674177

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* Heavy Smog, 3rdl7th December. 1962.
Rent Act, 1957.—This Act, which came into force on 6th
July, 1957, introduced new legislation for the issue and cancellation
of certificates of disrepair, repealed the relevant sections of the
Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954, appertaining thereto and
made certain amendments to the Rents Acts 1920/1939. Any
certificate previously issued and in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act shall, to the extent that it specifies any
defects as regards the state of repair of any dwelling, be dealt with
as if it were a certificate of disrepair under this Act.
The provisions of abatement for disrepair are substantially
between landlord and tenant—the local authority, where the occasion
arises, assuming the role of arbitrator whose decisions in the
main may be challenged in the County Court by either party.
The procedure is almost entirely different from the previous
legislation. The tenant must specify the existence of defects from
which deletions only are permissible by the local authority following
receipt of an application for a certificate of disrepair. No further
inspections may be made unless an application in respect of an
undertaking or an objection to the cancellation of a certificate is
received.