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drains discovered. Statutory Notices were served in sixty-seven
cases under the Public Health (London) Act. 1936, and the Prevention
of Damage byPests Act 1949. Thirty-one cases were referred to the
Town Clerk for the necessary action.
The number of inspections and revisits involved were as
follows :-
Inspections 1,202
Revisits 1,405
CLEAN AIR ACT 1956
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INITIAL
SMOKE CONTROL AREA
During the year the Lambeth Borough Council decided to estab1ish
an area of approximately one hundred acres, centrally situated
within the Borough, as an initial Smoke Control Area.
This area is bounded on the north by Prima Road, on the east
by Brixton Road, on the south west by Stockwell Park Road and on
the west and north-west by Clapham Road.
This are a was considered suitable for the following reasons
(i) It is comparatively small and compact.
(ii) Its centra] situation within the Borough would make
it eminently suitable for extension in due course.
(iii) Its location is sufficiently distant from the
Southern Region of British Railways.
(iv) It is almost entirely residential, save for a
relatively small number of commercial and industrial
premises, and contains the Council's new housing
estate at Caldwell Street.
(v) It contains a small area which is zoned for future
open space and a certain amount of the older property
is scheduled for fairly early slum clearance.
(vi) The area lying to the west and south-west (the
direction of the prevailing wind) ismainly occupied
by Borough Council andLondon County Council housing
estates, and is to some extent, therefore, already
smokeless.