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(a) Site No.l. St. David's Hospital
(b) Site No.2. Town Hall
(c) Site No.3. Cuckoo Hall Lane School
It is not unreasonable to deduce from these figures that at least 700 tons
of grit and dust fall on Edmonton each year. The figures for June to December 1958
are somewhat less than those for the same period in 1957, and this is due mainly to
a reduction in the emission of grit and dust from the factory chimneys.
During the year 834 observations of industrial chimneys in the Borough were
made by the Public Health Inspectors and nuisances were alleviated in a number of
cases. The No.l. Smoke Control Order agreed in principle in 1957 was declared in
June 1958, and was to come into force on the 1st June, 1959. This was, of course,
the area bounded on the east and north-east by Latymer Road, on the north by Harrow
Drive, on the west by the Great Cambridge Road, and on the south by Church Street.
It was a small area containing 402 dwelling-houses, 2 industrial premises and 7
other premises. No.2. Smoke Control Area was agreed in principle in June 1958, and
was p. somewhat larger area. This was an area bounded on the west by the Borough
boundary, on the north by Ridge Avenue and Bury Street, and the east by the Great
Cambridge Road, and on the south by Hedge Lane. This area contained about 2,070
houses, of which about 1,500 required conversions of one sort or another to render
them capable of burning smokeless fuel, was some 353 acres in extent and immediately
adjoined No.l. Area, being separated from it by the Great Cambridge Road.
The No.l. Area subsequently came into force without incident and has, I
think, been welcomed by the citizens of Edmonton.
RODENT CONTROL
Your Senior Public Health Inspector, as Officer-in-Charge, Rodent Control,
reported as follows:-
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