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instruments, toweis, equipment and materials used in the premises, and
the other requirements of the Shops Act were being complied with.
Except in one case where the premises were not closed for a half-day
weekly no contraventions of the byelaws or the Shops Act were
noted. As in previous years, at most of these establishments a very high
standard of clealiness was maintained.
CONTROL OF NUISANCES
Atmospheric Pollution
Smoke Complaints. During the year nineteen complaints were
received about smoke nuisances from the chimneys of industrial premises
in the district. Most related to two factories, one using oil as a fuel, the
other wood waste from the processing shops. In the case of the first,
recommendations of Consulting Engineers were acted upon and the trouble
that was being experienced, which was mainly from smuts, was reduced
considerably. This matter is receiving further attention with a view to the
trouble being eliminated. In the second case, a new and improved type of
incinerator is being installed.
The other complaints were due to stoking lapses and were dealt with
by the management concerned after a visit by one of the Public Health
Inspectors.
Smoke Control
At their meeting on the 31st March, 1959 the Public Health Committee
declared the following part of the Borough a smoke control area—
(1) forty-five acres to the south of the London, Midland and West
Railway line which includes some 400 dwellings, about half of which
were Council properties and (2) a rectangular area of 180 acres bounded on
the north by Eastcote Lane, by Alexandra Avenue on the east and by the
boundaries with Ruislip-Northwood Urban District and the Borough of
Ealing on the west and south respectively with some 1,900 premises. The
area proposed then, was 225 acres on which are some 2,200 premises. This
is the first step towards the Council's ultimate object of making the whole
of the Borough smoke controlled by means of orders made from time to
time in respect of different areas. The necessary particulars were forwarded
to the Minister of Housing and Local Government who in consultation
with the Minister of Power gave provisional approval to the proposal.
Accordingly, a detailed survey of the area was started and was well under
way by the end of the year. The date suggested for the coming into
operation of the order is September, 1961.
The premises in the area comprise 2,179 dwellings (including 177
owned by the Corporation and twenty-one owned by the Ealing Borough
ouncil), ten shops, one public house, a church, a football club, a day
nursery and a children's home.
To advise the householders concerned of the Council's intentions, the
Chairman of the Public Health Committee wrote to all of them stressing
the need for reducing atmospheric pollution and advising them that