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In 9 cases, 100 per cent grant was paid to persons in receipt of
National assistance, and whose applications were supported by the Manager of
the National Assistance Board.
Some contraventions of a Smoke Control Order occur immediately after
the Order comes into operation, but informal action normally ensures
compliance.
One persistent contravention in the No.4 Area was reported to the
Public Health Committee who decided to take proceedings. The offender
hurriedly packed his bags and vacated the premises leaving no trace of his
whereabouts. Whether the knowledge of his misdemeanour weighed heavily
upon him and was the principle cause of his departure is not known, but if
so this must be the first recorded case of a refugee from smoke control
seeking sanctuary in the smoke laden atmosphere over the border to the north
or south of the borough.
Estate agents are not by nature reticent in their description of
properties advertised for sale; however one searches in vain for a desirable
property "situate within a smoke control area".
It is obvious that there is an urgent need for vastly more education
on this subject to be carried out on a national scale. Vast sums of money
are being spent to persuade people to give up cigarette smoking for their
own good; it is a pity a similar sum is not spent on persuading people to
stop choking their neighbours with smoke fumes from coal fires and
disfiguring buildings and the countryside.
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