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include their premises in a smoke control area and to make them fullyaware
of their duties and responsibilities. Posters are displayed
throughout the area, and an explanatory letter and booklets are sent to
all occupiers of dwellings in the area, who are also visited by the
Smoke Inspector and/or Enquiry Officer. Forms are sent to each occupier
to facilitate submission of estimates and claims for grants. In order
to ease the burden of expense on persons who are having conversions
executed, the Council accepts the assignment of grants direct to the
contractor. By this means, instead of the person having to pay the
whole cost of the work and then obtaining reimbursement from the Council,
he pays only his own portion of the cost, the remainder being paid direct
to the contractor by the Council.
In addition, there is in the Public Health Offices a Smoke Control
Exhibition which was opened during the year by Her Worship the Mayor,
and in which are displayed various types of approved space heating and
cooking appliances and authorised fuels. Arrangements were also made
for the Solid Smokeless Fuel Federation's Demonstration Van to tour the
smoke control area for a week.
In December, the Council made a Smoke Control Order for a second
area in the Borough. The Minister's confirmation of this order is
awaited.
Two applications were received during the year for exemption from
the operation of Section 11 of the Act relating to Smoke Control Order
No.l. One of these premises, where fireplaces are to be used for
purposes of investigation and research, was exempted.
Facing this page is a Map showing the first programme of smoke
control areas established and proposed to be established in the Borough.
Prior approval was given during the year to plans and specifications
of furnaces submitted under Section 3 of the Act and proposed to be
installed in two industrial premises, and notifications of proposal to
instal furnaces were received in respect of 15 other premises.
Measurements of air pollution are taken regularly in the Borough
by means of deposit gauges and lead peroxide instruments, which give
monthly records of deposited matter and of the concentration of sulphur
in the air, and also by combined smoke filters and volumetric sulphur
dioxide apparatus which afford daily readings.
Summaries of the recordings obtained from these instruments will
be found in Tables 12 and 13, on pages 66 and 67, and details of visits
and inspections made by the Smoke & Factories Inspector are given on
page 65.
Drainage and Sanitary Conveniences.
Considerable use is being made of Section 25(l) of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1955, whereby a Public Health
Inspector can serve a notice on a person requiring him to clear an
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