Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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The additional daily recording plants, one at Bessborough Street
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, and another at the City Council's
Farm Street Depot, set up in September, 1954, for a specified period at
the request of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,
were discontinued in October, 1955.
Average Daily Concentrations of S02.
Month.
Monck
Street.
Farm
Street.
Bessborough
Street.
S02
p.p.m.
So2
p.p.m.
so2
p.p.m.
January
.204
.210
.212
February
.147
.169
.185
March
.149
.170
.158
April
.090
.097
.111
May
.072
.067
.082
June
.062
.054
.069
July
.046
.047
.051
August
.036
.036
.037
September
.040
.051
.049
October
.109
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November
.150
—
—
December
.157
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Smoke Abatement—Results op Observations and Action
Taken.
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
Complaints received
80
85
130
79
120
69
121
Observations taken
720
1,374
1,371
1,565
1,623
1,414
2,413
Notices issued—
Preliminary
4
37
15
11
5
2
7
Statutory.
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1
1
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