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London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1928, Section 28.
By the provisions of this section power is given to remove aged and infirm
persons to a suitable institution.
During the year under review no cases of this type came to the notice of the
department.
This section is rather a cumbersome one and where cases are removed to hospital
under its provisions, the attendance of the Medical Officer of Health at court is
necessary. It will be readily understood that if the section was operated to any
extent the administrative procedures would become very heavy. On the other hand
when these cases enter hospital voluntarily they seldom elect to request their discharge
and Borough officers are thus spared the expenditure of a considerable amount of
time.
Schools.
The sanitary condition of the public elementary schools in the borough is satisfactory.
During the year Haggerston Road school was demolished and a new block
for mental defectives was commenced at Christchurch school in the New North Road.
Smoke Nuisance.
During the year under review the Inspectors continued to pay attention to the
possibility of nuisance due to smoke from chimneys of factories and workshops
Observations were made in 26 cases, the usual period of observation ranging from
five to thirty minutes. In four instances the emission of smoke to such an extent
as to create a nuisance was observed. The period of emission of black smoke from
the premises under observation was one, thirteen, fifteen and twenty-five minutes
respectively.

Although the number of workshops in Shoreditch is large, the factories are few.
Consequently, the type of chimney which is most likely to give rise to a smoke nuisance
is the small metal flue which emits the smoke either from a baker's oven or from
premises used in connection with the manufacture of furniture. Although the
smoke emitted from such flues is not so dense as that emitted from large boilers, the
flues are lower than brick chimneys and smoke tends to be dispersed at a lower level.
A further disadvantage is that these small furnaces are likely to be stoked up or
used at indefinite intervals; this procedure makes control of smoke emission more
difficult.
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