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Swimming Baths and Paddling Pools
Specialist chemists in water examinations attached to the Scientific Branch of the Greater London
Council act as agents for the Health Department of the London Borough of Haringey in the periodic
bacteriological and chemical sampling of the waters in all public and school swimming baths and paddling
pools within the Borough.
Smoke Control Areas
On the 1st April 1965, when the Council of the London Borough of Haringey assumed responsibility
for the operation of the Clean Air Act, there were three smoke control orders which had been confirmed
and were in the process of being brought into operation. These were the Tottenham (No.5) Order which
related to an area of 603 acres containing 1,429 Corporation dwellings, 2,300 G.L.C. dwellings and 3,595
privately owned dwellings, and the Wood Green (Nos. 7 and 8) Orders which dealt with 82 acres containing
67Corporation dwellings and 1,325 privately owned houses. A fourth Order, the Hornsey (No.7) Order,
which was awaiting approval by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, was confirmed on the
21st May, 1965. This order covered an area of 262 acres containing 5,385 dwellings.
There was heavy pressure on the Department in dealing with applications for grant in respect of the
14,000dwellings in the four areas and contractors were also finding difficulties in meeting the resultant
demand for estimates and installations. In consequence, it was necessary for the Council to defer the
operative dates of the Tottenham Order from the 1st July to the 1st November 1965 and the Hornsey Order
from the 1st December 1965 to the 1st April 1966.
Furnace Installations
Fifteen notifications were received in accordance with Section 3 of the Clean Air Act 1956 of
proposals to install furnaces and boiler plants.
Chimney Heights
Eleven notices were received under Section 10 of the Clean Air Act of proposals for new chimneys
serving furnace installation. In four cases the proposed chimney heights were considered to be inadequate
and revised heights were subsequently agreed. In five other cases advice was given to the Companies
concerned before firm proposals were submitted to the Council.
Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution
At the beginning of the year there were eleven sites at which daily measurements of smoke and
sulphur dioxide were taken. This number was reduced to ten in June as a consequence of closure of
Bounds Green Secondary Modern School. Towards the end of the year discussions commenced with the
Divisional Officer of the Ministry of Technology with a view to the reduction of the sites to a number
giving greater ease of management whilst at the same time providing adequate information on the trend
inthe Borough of sulphur dioxide and smoke pollution. Table A which follows shows the readings taken
during the period April 1964 to March 1965.
Standard deposit gauges to collect falling grit and dust are sited at Hornsey Town Hall and the
Electricity Sub-station at Hampden Road, N.8. Table B below shows the extent of such deposits during
1965.
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