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City of London 1927

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Table: SUMMARY OF MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS AND REPORTS DURING THE YEAR 1927.

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SUMMARY OF MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS AND REPORTS DURING THE YEAR 1927.

Month of the Year 1927.	Place.	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
		Rainfall mm.	Metric tons per square kilometre.
			Insoluble matter.			Soluble matter.		Total solids.	Included in soluble matter.
			Tar.	Carbonaceous other than tar.	Ash.	Loss on ignition.	Ash.	Total solids.	Sulphates (SO3).	Chlorine (Cl).	Ammonia (NH3).
January	Meteorological Office	38	0.18	2.57	5.04	1.28	3.08	12.15	1.29	0.78	0.08
	Golden Lane	44	0.08	7.87	6.47	2.49	6.57	23.48	2.86	1.35	0.18
	Victoria Park	26	0.06	1.02	1.40	0.72	1.94	5.14	0.90	0.37	0.07
February	Meteorological Office	86	0.18	2.87	4.67	2.37	4.47	14.55	2.15	o.76	0.06
	Golden Lane	76	0.04	3.38	5.64	3.04	4.25	16.35	2.29	0.91	0.24
	Victoria Park	76	0.1	1.80	2.82	0.86	3.36	8.95	1.47	0.34	0.15
March	Meteorological Office	52	0.13	1.69	3.26	1.06	3.13	9.26	1.06	0.55	0.04
	Golden Lane	47	0 .08	6. 03	8.50	2.70	7.38	24.69	2.77	1. 01	1.92
	Victoria Park	56	0 .09	0.79	2.23	0.42	2.48	6.02	0.90	0.42	0.06
April	Meteorological Office	37	0.11	1.39	1.83	0.70	1.54	5.8	0.66	0.24	0.03
	Golden Lane	18	0.06	6.21	8.83	2.55	4.62	22.77	2.53	0.60	0.10
	Victoria Park	47	0.05	0.78	2.04	1.01	1.73	5.61	0.76	0.32	0.07
May	Meteorological Office	11	0.06	0.93	1.31	0.87	2.13	5.31	0.89	0.31	0.01
	Golden Lane	33	0 .03	2.68	4.04	1.83	2.87	11.45	1 .61	0.58	013
	Victoria Park	43	0.05	127	307	031	1.83	6.53	0.67	0.26	0.05
June	Meteorological Office	52	0.17	1.79	4.67	1.25	2.70	10.58	1.21	0.37	0.07
	Golden Lane	47	0.04	402	714	2.26	5.08	18.54	2.06	0.80	0.32
	Victoria Park	57	0.07	1.47	3.48	0.46	2.24	7.73	0.85	0.24	0.06
July	Meteorological Office	58	0.17	1.65	2.76	1.04	3.28	8.90	1.06	0.29	0.03
	Golden Lane	47	0.04	4.60	6.44	3.40	4.73	19.22	2.21	0.84	0.30
	Victoria Park	78	0 07	1.16	2.61	0.47	2.50	6.80	0.86	0.22	0.11
August	Meteorological Office	77	0.15	1.31	2.17	1.39	3.40	8.42	1.32	0.31	0.09
	Golden Lane	47	0.05	7.46	11.74	3.76	7 . 51	30.52	4.00	0.76	0.32
	Victoria Park	102	0.07	0.96	1.72	0.86	2.50	6.11	1.12	0.33	0.12
September	Meteorological Office	84	0.13	1 . 41	216	1.54	2.58	7.82	1.51	0.40	0.07
	Golden Lane	94	0.05	5.37	7.09	5.25	9.00	26.76	3.99	0.79	0.37
	Victoria Park	117	0.07	1.24	2.22	0.89	2.71	7 .13	1.23	0.37	0.09
October	Meteorological Office	26	0.21	1.21	2.29	0.50	2.39	6.60	1.20	0.32	0.04
	Golden Lane	24	0.04	3.59	5.10	1.93	3.76	14.42	1.92	0.67	0.09
	Victoria Park	28	0 .05	0.88	1.48	0.49	1.40	4.39	0.30	0.22	0.06
November	Meteorological Office	54	0.21	2.70	3.40	1.74	3.59	11.64	1.29	0.65	0.08
	Golden Lane	59	0.05	2.92	4.54	2.81	4.45	14.77	2.09	0.95	0.21
	Victoria Park	52	0.07	1.33	2.24	0.34	2.33	6.31	0.93	0.31	0.09
December	Meteorological Office	79	0.20	3.02	4.68	1.49	5.11	14.50	1 .55	0.95	0.10
	Golden Lane	Bottle	burst	by fros	t.
	Victoria Park	55	0.06	1.03	1.43	0.72	3.28	6.52	0.97	0.66	0.08

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PUBLIC HEALTH (SMOKE ABATEMENT) ACT, 1926.
A valuable addition to the Public Health laws, the Public Health (Smoke Abatement)
Act, 1926, came into operation on the 1st July of this year.
The Act increases in one important direction the powers already possessed by local
authorities for controlling nuisances which arise from smoke. In the past the greatest
difficulty in dealing with complaints of smoke nuisance has been due to the fact that "black"
smoke only was referred to in the Smoke Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
In the new Act, however, the word "black" has been omitted, and action can now be
taken in the case of a chimney, not being the chimney of a private dwelling.house, which

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