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2. Coal Smoke Abatement Society 11 letters dealing
with alleged smoke nuisances connected with :—
Lion Brewery Co, (Belvedere Road), Walker, Parker
& Co. (Belvedere Road), Meredith Bros. (Belvedere
Road), Holloway Bros. (Belvedere Road), St. Thomas's
Hospital (Westminster Bridge), McGaw & Co. (York
Road), J. C. & J. Field (Upper Marsh), London & South
Western Railway (Waterloo Station).
Special observations were made, during 1913, with reference
to St. Thomas's Hospital (Westminster Bridge), Rogers
& Cook (South Lambeth Road), Lion Brewery (Belvedere
Road), Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd. (Clapham Road),
Arlington Laundry (Cambria Road), and Meredith Bros.
(Belvedere Road).
A new furnace was provided to the boiler in connection
with the Arlington Laundry (Cambria Road), whilst a new
boiler plant was installed in connection with Rogers &
Cook (South Lambeth Road), consisting of two Lancashire
boilers (30ft. bv 8ft. 3in. each), two Fergusson's superheaters
and one of Green's patent economisers—all installed
in new settings and in a new boiler house. The flues are
connected to a newly erected chimney 100ft. Oin. high.
In connection with Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Ltd.
(Clapham Road), a combustion indicator was placed in the
boiler house, so as to enable the stokers to have a constant
knowledge of the condition of the smoke issuing at any
time from the top of the chimney stack.
The St. Thomas's Hospital authorities are considering
a scheme for enlarging the boiler plant, so as permanently
to abate the nuisance from black srroke from time to time
as complained of, as also the nuisance from fine particles
of unburnt or partially burnt coal, which, at times, issue
from the chimney shaft, and are deposited upon the St.
St. Thomas's Hospital premises and other neighbouring
premises.