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and/or Technical Assistant. Forms are sent to each occupier to facilitate
the 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 obtaining reimbursement from the Council, he pays only his own
portion of the cost, the remainder being paid by the Council direct to
the contractor.
There is in the Public Health Offices a Smoke Control Exhibition
which is always open to the public and in which are displayed various
types of approved space heating and cooking appliances and authorised
fuels. Arrangements were also made with the Solid Smokeless Fuel
Federation for their Demonstration Van to tour the Smoke Control Area
for a week.
Facing page 24 is a map showing the first programme of Smoke Control
Areas established and proposed to be established in the Borough.
Under the provisions of lection 3(3) of the Clean Air Act, 1956,
furnaces may not be installed in buildings unless notice of proposal
to install has been given to the Council. Notices were given to the
Council of proposal to install furnaces in 11 premises. Persons who
installed furnaces in two premises without giving the requisite notice
were oautioned.
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 62 and 63, and details of visits and
inspections made by the Smoke & Factories Inspector are given on page 59.
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 obstructed
drain within 4.8 hours, and if the notice is not complied with during
that time the Council may themselves execute the work and recover the
cost from the person responsible. Notices under this section served
during the year numbered 177, the Council executing the work in 27
instances.
Factories.
Under Section 128 of the Factories Act, 1937, the Medical Officer
of Health is required among other things to report to the Council in
his annual report specifically on the administration of, and furnish
the prescribed particulars vrith respect to, matters under the Act
administered by the Council. The prescribed particulars referred to
will be found in the Appendix, pages 60 and 61.
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