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WORKING PARTY ON THE SUPPRESSION OF ODOURS
The Department of the Environment set up a Working Party on the Suppression of Odours from
Offensive and Selected Other Trades under the Chairmanship of Dr. F.H.H. Valentin, Deputy Director of
Warren Spring laboratory. The Council was requested to supply details of establishments in the Borough
that created, or could create, a smell nuisance, together with an indication of any measures taken to deal
with such smells and the degree of success obtained. Details of 22 premises were submitted, as a result of
which the Working Party expressed a wish to visit Islington. Arrangements were therefore made for
representatives to inspect a cross section of the premises concerned. These included three of the offensive
trades, viz. a tripe dresser, fat melter and fur skin dresser together with a ham boiler, a coffee manufacturer,
a sausage casings factory and an industrial chemist and assayer. The members of the Working Party found
the visits informative and useful.
ALKALI, ETC. WORKS REGULATION ACT 1906
There are no registrable premises in Islington to which this Act applies, but co-operation was maintained
during the year on a two-way basis with the Alkali Inspector who includes the borough in his area.