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SMOKE CONTROL AREAS
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
No. 6
Council resolution
25.11,58
7-12,59
27.6.61
28.11.61
27.3 62
25.9.62
Ministry enquiry
7. 4.59
14 4 60
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Ministry confirmation
25. 6.59
15.8.60
31.10.61
23.3.62
15.6.62
27.12.62
Date of operation
1.10.60
1 61
1 10.62
1.10.62
1.10,63
1.10.63
Acres
186
130
335
200
100
365
Total dwellings
1,602
1,060
804
1,141
880
987
Council houses
418
5
682
182
-
379
Estimated number of
dwellings ranking
for grant
1,370
911
739
979
773
766
Number of dwellings
where estimates of
cost of conversion
or adaptation were
approved
1,147
561
644
415
22
Number of claims for
grant checked and
approved for payment
1,062
517
6
224
8
Gross cost to 31.12.62
Nature of works
£14,336
£8,700
£137
£5,654
£281
carried out:-
(a) new appliances
974
632
7
358
13
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(b) adaptation of
existing applianc
es 445
200
2
42
4
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(c) gas or electric
kindling provided
757
399
9
262
12
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TENTS, VANS AND CARAVANS. There are six sites in the Borough which have been
used as caravan sites for many years. Some are occupied wholly or in part by persons
who use caravans for business in connection with a travelling circus, fair or stall.
Eight other sites are occupied by one or more caravans. During the year, the inspectors
made 574 visits of inspection because of the occupation of land by caravans.
Trespass by caravans on road verges and unfenced land continues especially
on the western outskirts of the Borough. The vagrant type who occupy these caravans
deposit domestic refuse, litter of all kinds, waste water and faecal matter in the
neighbourhood of the sites occupied. Much time and effort have been given in attempts
to clear them from their usual camping sites, but only too often within 24 hours they
are back again.
Under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, I960, two site
licences were issued for a limited period.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES. There is no common lodging house in the Borough.
CANAL BOATS. The Public Health Inspectors continued their duties as canal boat
inspectors, and made 11 inspections during the year.
FACTORIES, WORK-PLACES, ETC. The Factories Act placed on the Council certain
duties in regard to (a) outworkers; (b) employment of persons in unwholesome premises;
(c) basement bakehouses; (d) provision of sanitary conveniences in all factories, and
(e) cleanliness, over-crowding, ventilation and drainage of floors in the case of
factories in which mechanical power is not used. A summary of the work done is given
below and in Table IX- -
Inspection of (a) Factories - mechanical power 365
(b) Factories - non-mechanical power 19
(c) Other premises 158
(d) Outworkers' premises 88
Defects remedied 11
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