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SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Closet Accommodation.
The water carriage system is general throughout the Borough
with the exception of one or two outlying places where no sewers
are available and cesspools have to be used.
Drainage.
During the year new drains were constructed to 119 new
buildings, and the drains of 414 existing buildings were partially
or entirely reconstructed under the supervision of the Sanitary
Inspectors.
Smoke Abatement.
Delegates appointed by this Authority attended the Greater
London Joint Smoke Abatement Conference held at the Guildhall
in October last. The resolutions adopted by the Conference subsequently
received the approval of the Council, who also directed
that the London County Council be requested to make a bye-law
under Section 2 of the Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act,
1926, in the following terms suggested by the Greater London
Joint Smoke Abatement Committee for the guidance of municipal
Authorities:—
Draft Form of Bye-law.
Byelaw made in pursuance of Section 2 of the Public Health (Smoke Abatement)
Act, 1926, by the
Whereas Section 2 of the Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926, provides
that any Local Authority may make Byelaws regulating the emission of s moke of
such colour, density or content as may be prescribed by the Byelaws and tha t where
such Byelaws are in force the emission of smoke of the character so prescribed for
such period as may be prescribed in the Byelaws either from buildings generally
to which the enactments relating to smoke nuisances apply or from such classes
of those buildings as may be so prescribed shall until the contrary is proved be
presumed to be a nuisance:—
The do by this
Bye -law prescribe that the emission of black smoke for a period of two minutes in
the aggregate within any continuous period of thirty minutes from any one chimney
of a building other than a private dwelling house shall until the contrary is proved
be presumed to be a nuisance.
There can be no doubt that the question of smoke pollution
is one which demands the application of every available means to
secure its abatement or regulation.
The domestic chimney, although excepted from the provisions
of any enactment governing the subject of smoke abatement,
is, in many districts, possibly a worse offender than the industrial
shaft in causing atmospheric pollution.
Notwithstanding the public interest in this question on
aesthetic and health grounds, it does not seem to be generally
known that a smokeless fuel is now available practically for all
purposes of heating. It is, however, satisfactory to note that
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