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Ice Cream Manufacturers and Vendors.
Cleansings, 9; Special cleansings of utensils, 1; Paving
repaired, 1 ; Other improvements, 16.
Hairdressers.
Cleansings, 1; Other improvements, 3.
Rag and Bone Dealers.
Cleansings, 2.
Street Traders.
Stalls improved, 7; Store rooms improved, 1.
Stable Premises.
Cleansings, 1; Accumulations removed, 2; Other Improvements,
3.
Schools.
W.C.s repaired and cleansed, 12.
Public Houses.
Special cleansings, 12 ; Hot water supplied, 1.
Smoke Abatement.
No further sections of the Clean Air Act came into force
during this year.
A member of the Health Committee and myself were appointed
as delegates of the Council to attend the annual conference of the
National Smoke Abatement Society held at Hastings in October.
A series of papers was given on the various aspects of smoke
abatement and considerable discussion arose with respect to Smoke
Control Areas and their administration. This Conference was very
interesting and well worth attending.
Observations on smoke nuisance from factories in the Borough
amounted to 118. Investigations were carried out in all cases, new
boiler plant being installed in some factories and considerable
improvement being effected in others.
Two District Public Health Inspectors attended a course
arranged at the Coal Utilization Centre in regard to the design and
installation of domestic heating apparatus.
Two instruments for measuring Sulphur pollution in the
atmosphere were installed on the 1st January, one at the Monoux
Grammar School and the other at the Connaught Hospital. Readings
of the instruments were as follows:—