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D (7) Shops Act 1950
With regard to statutory hours of closing it was necessary
to issue 4 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 3
New W.C's provided 3
New W.C. Pans 1
New sinks 2
Shops cleansed 1
Floors renewed 2
Water supply provided 1
D (8) Sanitary Accommodation at Offices
At one factory office, it was found necessary to implement
Section 46, Public Health Act 1936, in consequence of which
2 additional conveniences were provided for male staff and
2 similar conveniences for female staff.
Adequate washing facilities were also provided in each
case.
D (9) River Thames—Effluvia
In July, 3 samples of river mud and one of river water were
submitted to the Public Analyst who reported that sulphide.
sulphur was present in the mud in varying proportions of
536, 1970 and 2280 parts per million, all samples yielding
sulphuretted hydrogen, and that the river water was considerably
sewage polluted.
It may well be that effluvia from the river Thames in 1951
was not so apparent as in the summer of 1949 because of the
interim expedient of chlorination which is referred to in the
London County Council's Rivers and Drainage Committee's
published report on the £10,000,000 five year programme of
capital works for improving the sewage effluents at the northern
and southern outfalls as follows:—
"The Housing Committee reported in January, 1949, on
the programme of works for improving the effluents during
the quinquennium 1947-1952. The fulfilment of this programme
was retarded, but work on the completion of the
detritus pits at the northern outfall works, which had been
delayed by the war, was restarted in March, 1950, and the