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Notifications received as to new boiler installations.
Under Section 3 of the Clean Air Act notifications must be given to the
local authority where new boiler plant is to be installed. 4 notifications
were received during the year.
3 applications for prior approval of proposed boiler plant were
approved during 1958.
Measurement of atmospheric pollution.
The measurement of atmospheric pollution by means of the volumetric
system of measurement of both solids and sulphur dioxide has continued
throughout 1958.
Your Council are represented on the National Society for Clean Air by
Mr. Councillor R.G. Linale and Mr. Grant, Chief Public Health Inspector
(who is also an elected member of the Council of the South East Division of
the National Society for Clean Air) who attended the Annual Conference of
the National Society for Clean Air held at Llandudno in October 1958.
The Council's representatives on the Standing Conference for
Co-operating Bodies on Atmospheric Pollution are Mr. Councillor T. Keen
and Mr. T.H. Marshall, Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector.
PLUMBING AND DRA.INAGE.
Modern Trends.
In recent years there has been a marked tendency to depart from the
traditional plumbing and drainage designs where the possibilities of
success in reducing costs and speeding up the work justified it. Some
local authorities have had the enterprise to experiment in this field,
usually basing their designs on research work carried out at The Building
Research Station, and in London, with an eye on the draft drainage bye-laws
now under consideration by the London County Council.
The close co-operation enjoyed between the Chief Public Health
Inspector, his Deputy and the officers of the Borough Architect's Department
has resulted in a number of developments being evolved in the plumbing and
drainage design of flats and maisorettes, including multi-storey blocks in
Shoreditch.
Some of the drainage innovations have passed the experimental stage and
are now adopted as regular features of design. Further measures to effect
improvement and reduce costs even more are being considered.
To reduce these facts to figures, the result of simplification of
plumbing alone has reduced the capital cost by at least £16 per flat and not
only has efficiency been maintained but it has been improved.