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necessary to issue 5 warnings to shop-keepers respecting closing
of shops at the prescribed hour.
Infringements of health and comfort provisions were
located in the following instances, and the necessary improvements
were subsequently effected :—
Heating provided 1
Shops cleansed 2
New floors laid 2
Plasters renewed 2
D(7)b Shops (Sunday Trading Restriction) Act 1936
Two offences under the above Act were prosecuted under
Section 1, the defendants being fined 40/- and 20/- respectively.
D(8) Sanitary Accommodation at Offices
At two offices attached to factory buildings it was found
necessary to implement provisions of Section 46 Public Health
Act 1936, in consequence of which 3 additional conveniences
were erected.
D(9) River Thames—Effluvia
Though not so pronounced as in 1949, when obnoxious
odours from the River Thames persisted during the whole of
the summer, objectionable smells arising from the same source
gave cause for many complaints at various times during the
year. For the first time an exceptionally rank odour was
evident in the river area in mid-November fog, when shopkeepers
in the High Street deemed it necessary to keep doors
closed. To convince the public under conditions such as these
that the remedy lies not with local administration, is extremely
irksome, and it is to be hoped that the necessary major works at
the Metropolitan sewer outfalls will not be long delayed. In
describing the work of the Water Pollution Research Laboratory,
"Water Pollution Research 1949 "announces that the survey
of the Thames Estuary to examine the causes of silting is being
carried out on behalf of the Port of London Authority. For
this purpose the Port of London Authority have equipped a
laboratory at Tilbury and have supplied a surveying launch.
The work so far reported has consisted mainly of a study of the
condition of the estuary water, and of an examination of samples
of bottom deposits taken from Teddington to the sea. Cooperating
in the survey are the L.C.C. who have placed at the
disposal of the laboratory very complete records of surveys of
the tidal reaches which they made have regularly for many years.