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ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
As a result of the issue of the "Beaver" Report on
Air Pollution and the promise of early legislation, public
interest is being increasingly focused on this problem.
The Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee
considered the need, put forward by the Director of Fuel Research,
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, for further
records of air pollution to be made throughout the Metropolis.
A Scheme was formulated for increasing the number of
daily measurements of smoke as it was felt that this will assist
research in not only showing the atmospheric condition in London,
but its relation to smoke in the research now going on with
regard to carcinoma of the Lungs and Respiratory Passages.
It was suggestedthat some 57 new stations would be
necessary to provide an adequate picture of the distribution of
pollution by smoke in the London Area. In Hampstead, we had
already installed two deposit gauges, one in the Superintendent's
garden at the Cemetery, Fortune Green, and the other at the
Metropolitan Water Board Reservoir at Barrow Hill. Recordings
from these actually commenced on the 1st January, 1954.