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Hackney 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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7. If for any reason a local authority should decide not to include provision
on these lines in any smoke control order for an area in which there are premises
without a gas supply, it is requested that they should give an explanation
of the special circumstances when submitting the order for confirmation."

SMOKE CONTROL AREAS - PHASED PROGRAMME

No. 1No. 2No. 3No. 4No. 5No. 6No.7
Premises3,0113,5659,71410, 5439,11612,81416,191
Dwellings2,6323, 0999,10410,0758,53711,43415,439
Acres150208689661326547706
Report to Public Health Committee16. 9.5712. 11.5814.10. 59Oct. 60Oct. 61Oct 62Oct. 63
Council's Approval in Principle27. 11. 5728. 1.5928. 10. 59Oct. 60Oct. 61Oct. 62Oct. 63
Provisional Clearance by Minister2. 5. 5814. 4.594. 1.60----
Report to Public Health Committee on detailed Survey9 9. 5814. 10. 59Oct. 60Oct 61Oct. 62Oct. 63Oct. 64
Order made by Council26. 9.5828.10.59Oct. 60Oct. 61Oct. 62Oct. 63Oct. 64
Order Confirmed19. 12. 5828. 1.60Apl. 61Jan. 62Jan. 63Jan 64Jan 65
Order Operative1 9. 591. 10. 601. 11.611. 10.621. 10. 631. 10.641. 10.65
The dates given above are factual upto the Council's approval in principl e of the No. 4 Area; thereafter the dates are tentative.

SECTION 12 (Adaptation of fireplaces in private dwellings). Statutory
Notices to the number of 2,316, the majority in respect of the No. 2 Area but
some in respect of the No. 1 Area, were served under the provisions of this
section. In the majority of cases the notices were, in accordance with
the Council's policy, served on the owners, but in a small number of cases
they were served on tenants wishing to carry out the work themselves and to
claim the appropriate grant. In all cases where an adaptation approved
by the Council is carried out a grant of 70% of the total approved cost is
payable by the Council who recover 40% from the Exchequer; the section does,
however, provide for payment by the Council of sums in excess of the statutory
70%, and advantage was taken of this provision in five cases.
SECTION 15 (Power of local authorities to make grants towards adaptations
to fireplaces in churches, chapels, buildings used by charities, &c.).
During the year, three applications were received for grants under the
Provisions of this section and in each case a grant of 50% of the cost of
carrying out the adaptations was made.
SECTION 16 (Abatement of Smoke Nuisances). This section so far as London
is concerned, enacts that -
(1) Smoke other than -
(a) smoke emitted from a chimney of a private dwelling or
(b) dark smoke emitted from a chimney of a building or from a chimney
serving the furnace of a boiler or industrial plant attached to a
building or for the time being fixed to or installed on any land,
shall, if it is a nuisance to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, be deemed
for the purposes of section two hundred and eighty-two of, and the Fifth
Schedule to, the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, to be a nuisance which may
be dealt with summarily under the Act.