[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Flint Borough.

  • Flint (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Flint Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /whon tlioro is sheer neglige nee, (b) Bomestic Smoko Pollutions This is a much greater xDroblem than that of pollution from industrial smoko since wo are attompting to deal with dozens of small furnaces, t]io makers of which have boon sot a practically impossible task by the householder as long as he (the Householder) wishes to burn bituminous coal. The popularity of the ox)on fire shows no sign of lessoning and if it is to be anything like smokoloss it must be supplied with a smokeless fuel. The availability and price of such a fuel is a seriously limiting factor in any attempt to control domestic smoke at the moment. I do not believe that Smokeless Zones can give anything like nationv/ide urban area average whilst this is so. The demand, however, for a cheaper smokeless fuel is undoubtedly grovfing and I hope that it will eventually bo easier to obtain such fuel than bituminous coal. Should this happen tho problem of domestic smoke will largely solve itself. (c) Funo Pollutions There is little further to report on this subject vdiicli is still causing a great deal of concern in certain areas of the Borough, Research work is still being carried on by the firm concerned, (d) Researchs The operation of the atmospheric filtration plant on behalf of tho British Empire Cancer Campaign continued throughout the year. The analysis of the results of a six months operation of this and similar machines elsewhere, together with figures obtained from the auxilliary equipment shov/s - (i) That the level of smoke pollution at the centre of Flint iss- Three times as great as it is in Llangefni, Approximately 69^ of that in Chester, 53^ Birkenhead, 41^ Liverpool, (ii) That the concentration of Sulphor Dioxide at the centre of Flint is?- 2.66 times as great as it is in Llangefni, Approximately 72^ of that in Chester, 44^ Birkenhead, 28^ Liverpool,
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