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Vermin: —
Heads
Bodies
Number of adults treated
42 (45)
51 (56)
Number of children treated
15 (23)
6 (1)
The medicinal baths staff also deal with the laundry and home
bathing of old people which is reported under "Aged and Infirm
Persons."
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION.—The results obtained from the
recording apparatus at the Welfare Centre, 283a Harrow Road,
during 1956 are given below: —
Month
Rainfall
in mms.
Insoluble
deposits in
tons per
square mile
Soluble
deposits in
tons per
square mile
S.O in
mgs. per
day per 100
sq. cms.
January
87 (55)
13.38 (12.21)
13.32 (15.34)
5.25 (5.73)
February
4 (33)
12.48 (8.18)
6.11 (11.77)
5.01 (4.91)
March
26 (24)
11.77 (11.10)
8.55 (9.42)
4.10 (5.75)
April
27 (8)
12.96 (7.38)
10.68 (4.02)
2.69 (2.75)
May
4(113)
9.53 (8.75)
3.26 (14.43)
1.59 (1.66)
June
52 (48)
8.66 (9.26)
5.27 (6.68)
1.40 (1.73)
July
78 (—)
8.79 (6.38)
6.61 (5.20)
1.26 (1.14)
August
111 (18)
8.46 (7.28)
12.71 (7.04)
1.47 (1.35)
September
74 (48)
10.68 (8.22)
14.26 (7.88)
2.12 (1.87)
October
32 (65)
9.09 (8.73)
10.64 (18.23)
2.92 (2.92)
November
9 (16)
10.44 (10.81)
6.81 (4.80)
4.43 (4.75)
December
67 (51)
13.69 (12.86)
12.86 (9.83)
4.30 (4.25)
Clean Air Act, 1956.
The Council's attention was drawn to the possible dangers to
public health from increased exhaust fumes from any additional
diesel engined omnibuses which the London Transport Executive
were proposing to operate in their programme for full scale replacement
of trolley-buses to commence in 1958. The Metropolitan
Boroughs Standing Joint Committee sought the Council's
observations on this possible additional pollution in view of the
debate which was then taking place in Parliament on the Clean
Air Bill.
The Council on the 26th January, 1956 informed the Metropolitan
Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee that they fully
concurred in the proposal to reconsider the general question of air
pollution by diesel engined vehicles and, in the light of certain
enquiries in connection with lung cancer, recommended that the
attention of the London Transport Executive be drawn to the fact
that the introduction of additional diesel engined omnibuses may
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