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47 The Avenue, W.13. A specification of works and an
undertaking not to relet submitted
by the owner of these premises in
respect of the basement flat were
accepted by the Council in October,
Underground Room Regulations
Revised Regulations for Underground Rooms were made
by the Council under Section 18 of the Housing Act. 1957,
in May and the Minister of Housing and Local Government
gave his consent to these Regulations in November. The
Regulations were to come into operation on the 1st January,
1962.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1961.
This Act,mainly intended to amend the provisions of
the Public Health Act, 1936, relating to building byelaws
and trade effluents, and also public health matters
formerly dealt with in local Acts, came into force in
October.
The Council immediately had under consideration the
exercise of their new powers under Section 74 of the Act
relating to nuisance caused by the congregation of pigeons
and other birds in the built up areas, about which com
plaints had been received. In the absence of statutory
powers prior to the passing of this Act, there was very
little that could be done about this problem in Ealing.
At the end of the year preliminary investigations
into the activities and methods of several firms specialising
in the work of pigeon control were still proceeding.
BATHS AND SWIMMING POOLS
The Council's baths in Longfield Avenue contain four
indoor swimming pools. The water is drawn from the mains
of the Metropolitan Water Board and is completely circulated
in all four pools every four hours. The treatment
plant provides for flocculation with alum and soda ash
prior to filtration, combined with continuous marginal
chlorination of the water as it is drawn from the pools
and as it is returned. Tests are made at frequent intervals
each day to maintain a satisfactory level of residual
chlorine.
There are two privately owned swimming pools in the
Borough, both of which are equipped with filtration and
chlorination plants. They were not in use however during
1961.