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The Area is bounded by:
The District Railway Line from the Beam River to the Ingrebourne
River and thence by the Ingrebourne River to the northern
boundary of the R. A. F. Aerodrome, Hornchurch and extending along
that boundary to Wood Lane and via Rainham Road to the District Railway
Line where it crosses the Beam River.
The acreage is approximately 690.
Specific Complaints;
St. George's Hospital Chimney: New stoking arrangements should
now solve this problem and appear to be in fact doing so.
Special Processes: Liaison with the Alkali Inspector - Mr. G.
Tiplady, M. Sc., F. R. I.C., - is excellent and of course common problems
do from time to time arise.
Neighbouring Authority Liaison:
Contact is still maintained with Romford and Dagenham on General
smoke control considerations.
Atmospheric Pollution Investigation:
As from 1st April, 1961, our lead peroxide candles and deposit
gauges were discontinued. It appears to have been established that a
Volumetric SO2 apparatus incorporating a smoke filter is likely to be
the most useful form of apparatus. It is, of course, possible to use
only a smoke filter which greatly minimises the amount of work required
by avoiding the necessity for daily analysis.
Our present programme comprises smoke filters at:-
1) Public Health Department;
2) Scar gill County Primary School, Mungo Park Road, Rainham;
3) Ayloffs County Primary School, Southend Road, Elm Park;
4) Whybridge County Primary School, Blacksmiths Lane, Rainham,
and a Volumetric SO2 apparatus at the Public Health Department and
Whybridge County Primary School.
Clean Air Act. 1956. Section 21:
This Section allows exemption from certain Sections of the Act for
the purpose of investigation and research relevant to the problem of air
pollution to be carried out without rendering applicants liable to proceedings
under the Act. A trial period of three months was allowed for
a special apparatus dealing with the burning of sawdust waste.
Clean Air Act. 1956. Section 3:
This Section requires that any furnace installed in accordance with
plans and specifications submitted to, and approved for the purpose of
this Section by the Local Authority, shall be deemed so far as practicable,
smokeless or requires notice to the Local Authority of proposal
to instal furnaces of a certain maximum heating capacity.
11 Notices of installation and/or plans of new furnaces were submitted
to the Council during the year, A total of 29 have now been
registered.