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(a) Grit, soot and other particles, and sulphur dioxide (by the lead, peroxide
method): -
Station Instrument Installed Maintained by
Town Hall, E. 8. Deposit Gauge and Lead Hackney Borough Council
Peroxide Instrument.
Buccleuch House, E.5. do. Hackney Borough Council
Victoria Park, E.9. do. London County Council
(b) Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide (by the volumetric method):-
Station Apparatus Installed Maintained by
Hillman Street, E.8. Volumetric instrument attachment. sulphur with dioxide filter Hackney Borough Council
Lampard Grove Depot. do. Hackney Borough Council
Ambulance Station. do. London County Council
Brooksby' s Walk.
(See also pages and )
Tables showing the extent of atmospheric pollution as recorded at each of the
six stations in the borough are set out on pages 69-71 & 14/15 of the Appendix.
SECTION 30 (Duty to notify occupiers of offences) enacts that if, in the
opinion of an authorised officer of the local authority, an offence is being
or has been committed under Section one (Dark Smoke) or Section eleven (Smoke
Control Orders) of this Act, or a nuisance to which Section sixteen (Smoke
Nuisance) of this Act applies, exists or has existed, he shall, unless he has
reason to believe that notice thereof has already been given by or on behalf
of the local authority, as soon as may be notify the occupier of the premises.
If his notification is not in writing, he shall, within forty-eight hours after
he became aware of the offence, confirm the notification in writing. In any
proceedings for offences under Section one or Section eleven of this Act,
it shall be a defence to prove that the foregoing provisions have not been
complied with. Under the provisions of this section written notices were given
as follows:-
Section one 1
Section eleven 9
Section sixteen 7
Hie following table summarises the work of the department in connection
with smoke abatement and air pollution:-
Number of complaints received 149
Number of observations and investigations made 1,075
Number of nuisances found 70
Number of nuisances abated 70
Number of formal notifications given (Section 30) 17
Number of formal notices served (Section 16) 1
Number of visits in connection with industrial boilers
and furnaces . 369
Number of visits in connection with domestic Shioke Control 14, 208
Number of improvements effected to industrial fuel burning
equipment 37
Number of notifications of intention to install furnaces 13
Number of new furnaces for which application for approval
in accordance with Section 3(2) were made. 11
Number of informal notices to owners of properties in
Shioke Control Areas 2,420
Number of formal notices served - Section 12 2,316