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SMOKE NUISANCES.
The London County Council and proposkd Amendment
of the Law.
92 smoke nuisances were dealt with during the year—22 Bow East,
7 Bow West, 10 North Bromley, 13 Bromley Central, 11 East combined,
16 West combined, and 13 Poplar South.
62 intimations and 46 statutory notices were served.
Summonses were applied for in 5 instances, see pages 184, 185 and
186.
London County Council and proposed Amendment ok Law.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee :—
London County Council,
County Hall, Spring Gardens, S.W.
10th March, 1908.
Sir,
The Public Control Committee of the Council have under consideration
the question of obtaining an amendment of the law with
the view of dealing more effectively with nuisance from smoke. The
Committee recognise that the existing law is largely ineffective, and
that many sources of nuisance are at the present time untouched.
It would appear desirable that the Council and the several local
authorities should have more extensive powers for enabling them to
deal with the evils arising from smoke, and a draft scheme for the
amendment of the existing law has accordingly been prepared for
consideration. The scheme, briefly, is:—
(a) That dense smoke discharged from any building, vessel,
stationary or locomotive engine, place or premises (other
than a private dwelling house) within the area of the City
and the County of London and the surrounding urban districts
to a distance of twelve miles of Charing Cross or upon the
waters of the Port of London and its tributaries within such