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During the year 36 notifications of intended installations were received. In
respect of these, 30 plans were submitted for approval. Following slight amendments
in some cases, approval was granted in all but two instances.
Nuisances from smoke, apart from that emitted from chimneys, can arise in
industry where the open air burning of material is done as part of a reclamation
process, such as the burning off of insulating material to salvage the metal from
electric cable. This can be dealt with under Section 16 of the Act, when it is
deemed to be a statutory nuisance for the purposes of Part III of the Public Health
Act, 1936.
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution
The London Borough of Enfield is one of the participating authorities in the
National Survey of Air Pollution. Four smoke filter and sulphur dioxide volumetric
measuring instruments are sited in selected areas of the Borough and the measurements
taken daily. The results are forwarded to the Fuel Research Station of the
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Station 1 is sited at Honilands School, Bullsmoor Estate, Enfield.
Station 2 is sited at the Brimsdown Pumping Station, Stockingswater Lane,
Enfield.
Station 3 is sited at Merryhills School, Worlds End Lane, Enfield.
Station 4 is sited at Bush Hill Park Library, Fourth Avenue, Bush Hill Park.
Station 1 is in a smoke control area; 2 is in an industrial area; 3 is in a residential
area with a low population density; 4 is in a residential area with a high
population density.
Separate from the National Survey are three other instrument stations, which
are sited as follows:—
(a) Latymer Grammar School, Hazelbury Road, N.9.
(b) Huxley Secondary Modern School, Silver Street, N.18.
(c) Mandeville Secondary Modern School, Cuckoo Hall Lane, N.9.
The measurements from these instruments are also forwarded to the Fuel
Research Station.
(See Statistical Tables 32, 33 and 34 (graph).)
FOOD AND DRUGS
Part I of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, deals with the composition and labelling
of food and drugs, food unfit for human consumption, hygiene in connection
with the sale, etc., of food, registration of certain food premises, and food poisoning.
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