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11, Palatine Road.
Certain drainage work was necessary at this address and Notice
was served under Section 40. The work was not put in hand and
the Council subsequently carried out the work required at a cost of
£31 6s. 6d. The owner is repaying the Council by monthly
instalments.
111,Listria Park.
A Statutory Notice under Section 109 was served on the agents
for the owner for the defective condition of the first floor water
closet. The owner failed to carry out the work and this was
subsequently put in hand by the Council at a cost of £3 15s. 6d.
which is being recovered from the rents.
24, Springdale Road.
Notice was served for the repair of the hall floor water closet.
The owner failed to remedy the defect and the Council carried out
the work at a cost of £7 0s. Od. and are recovering the cost from
the rents.
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
The regular recording of atmospheric pollution has been
continued throughout 1952 with the apparatus installed at
the Town Hall, which gives monthly readings showing the
amounts of sulphurous gases and the impurities deposited from the
air. This pollution has a marked seasonal rise and fall, as shown in
the graphs in Figures I and II, which also give the comparable
readings for a rural area and for the average of all the London
readings.
Monthly readings, however, do not give a true picture of the
pollution resulting from such fogs as were experienced in London
between 5th and 8th December, 1952, and which have been
described in medical journals as " a great disaster " and " a violent
and untimely epidemic." The fog was originally due to a combination
of climatic conditions; during the four days in question,
the mass of cold air close to the ground was trapped by an upper
" ceiling " of warm air, 200-500 ft. above ground level. There was
almost a complete calm during this period, and as a result, the
smoke and pollution of these four days was held in the lower layer
of cold air, without having a chance of dispersing, as would happen
in normal climatic conditions. This pollution would also help to
form fresh droplets of water vapour, thus adding to the stability
and persistence of the fog.
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