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Atmospheric Pollution.
The Smoke/Sulphur Dioxide Recording Stations set up at the Town Hall
and Poplar Technical College have remained in operation throughout the year
and much useful information has been obtained therefrom. It is hoped next year
to set up a third station in Millwall Park.
The Department co-operates fully with the Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research at Warren Spring Laboratory, Stevenage. Records of smoke
and sulphur dioxide readings are sent to them monthly and, in return,from time
to time, we receive from them similar and tabulated recordings covering the
remainder of the country.
Hourly Smoke Study.
Poplar was one of the Boroughs co-operating with the College of General
Practitioners in a Special Study seeking information on any possible correlation
between increased respiratory sickness and air pollution levels during
smogs, using a Sequential Smoke Analyser, operating at hourly or shorter
intervals. Unfortunately, from the point of view of this, experiment, no smogs
were experienced after the setting up of the instruments. The experiment did,
however, show the benefit of this sort of co-operation.
Trainee Public Health Inspectors.
Pour Trainee Public Health Inspectors are on the establishment of the
department and each week two of them are seconded to the Section to assist the
Clean Air Inspector.
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