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Another company carrying out a grinding process in the open air has
erected a building in which to house the grinding and dust extracting equipment.
This company carries on a variety of processes all of which are likely
to cause a nuisance unless adequately supervised.
Generally speaking it may be said that the complaints of nuisance from
noxious fume emission have been less in number.
EXHIBITION
Once again we have staged an exhibition which was intended primarily
to bring to the notice of the public how the health of the people could benefit
by the use of smokeless fuel burning appliances.
Coinciding as it did with the Charter Anniversary Celebrations, it was
decided to take the opportunity of enlarging the scope of the Exhibition to
include all the services provided by the Council for the people of Barking,
and the title chosen for the event was "Barking Charter Anniversary Civic
Exhibition".
The Infestation Control Division of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Fisheries generously provided the stands which were used for the display of
propaganda by the following Departments of the Council:—Public Health,
Libraries, Town Clerk's, Borough Architect's, Borough Engineer's, Works
Manager's, Education and the Borough Treasury. We were assisted in the
sphere of atmospheric pollution by exhibits provided by the Electricity and
Gas Boards and the Coal Utility Council.
The Infestation Control Division provided a large speaking unit which
displayed live rodents and insects together with an explanatory talking film
exhibit.
Background music was supplied by the courtesy of Messrs. CollaroLtd.,
to which Company thanks are due for the loan of a microgram.
At an "open forum" in the Municipal Restaurant members of the public
were able to ask a panel of speakers questions concerning "local government
and the citizen".
ATMOSPHERIC CORROSION OF METALS
The apparatus for measuring atmospheric corrosion of metals, refers
to in my last report, was removed in September, having satisfactorily Provided
the information required. In a report issued by the British Iron and
Steel Research Association and designated "Correlation of Atmospheric
Corrosion and Atmospheric Pollution", it is stated:—
"Early in 1951 arrangements were made to correlate the rates of corrosion
of the reference specimens used for the work described in this
report with the pollution of the atmosphere by sulphur dioxide. The
Fuel Research Station, D.S.I.R. collaborated in this research by recommending
sixteen suitable sites where routine determinations of sulphur
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