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SMOKE ABATEMENT AND AIR POLLUTION
The following tables summarise the work of the department under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936 in connection with air pollution.
EFFLUVIA. SECTIONS 137 (Nuisance arising from offensive trade)
and 147 (2) (b) (penalties for failing to use the best practicable means
for preventing or counteracting any noxious or offensive effluvia or
annoyance arising from a trade or business).
Complaints received 21
Investigations made 95
Nuisances found 1
Informal notices served 1
Formal notices served Nil
SMOKE. SECTION 148 (Smoke Nuisances).
Complaints received 44
Observations made 1,957
Nuisances observed 12
Informal notices served 13
Formal notices served 4
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION RECORDING
(a) Grit, soot and other particles, and sulphur dioxide (by the
lead peroxide method). Measurement of these constituents were made at
the following three stations, and a table of the monthly findings is
given on Page 22 of the Appendix.
Station
Town Hall
Buccleuch House
Victoria Park
Instruments installed
Deposit Gauge and
Lead Peroxide Instrument
do.
do.
Maintained by:
Hackney Borough Council
Hackney Borough Council
London County Council
(b) Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide (by the volumetric method). A
table setting out the monthly average and highest daily average of the
concentration of these constituents as measured at the following three
stations is set out on page 23 of the Appendix.
Station
Hillman Street
Stores
Laspard Grove Depot
Ambulance Station,
Brooksby's Walk
Apparatus installed
Volumetric sulphur dioxide
instrument with filter
attachment
do.
do.
Maintained by:
Hackney Borough
Council
Hackney Borough
Council
London County
Council