[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1959
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The following programme was submitted Areas to be dealt with in five year programme. No; Area Acreage No of ] 1 Woodchurch 594 2444 2 Saughall Massie 880 1302 3 Upton 281 614 4 Thmgwall 981 641 5 Prenton 578 1639 6 Noctorum 894 9 CD 7 Bidston 443 62 8 Hr Tranmere(part) 235 1798 TOTALS 4886 9400 These areas cover approximately 57% of the Borough and contain nearly one quarter of all the houses The Council reserved the right to alter the order in which they would deal with these areas and gave instructions for further areas at the North end of the Borough to be surveyed They also decided that they would deal with the whole of the Borough in the next 20 years Inspectors carrying out the surveys are generally well received,. The interest shown and the favourable comments by householders on the idea of smoke control areas were greater than had been expected, Ra»1 ways. The coal fired locomotives at stations depots and during shunting operations continue to cause nuisance by excessive smoke and from the products of combustion emitted at low levels. Frequent observations have been made and re presentations to the Railway Authority have resulted in some improvement in the standard of operation. During the year three steam shunting locomotives have been replaced by diesel and two passenger locomotive swill be replaced early in January i960 by the new diesel trains between New Brighton and Wrexham. The Railway authority have also said that it is expected that on or before September i960 the local services between Birkenhead Woodside and Chester will be worked by diesel multiple units. This* when it comes about* will show very considerable improvement at the Station and in the reduction in the number of coal fired locomotives at the depots* but it is likely to be many years before the last coal fired steam locomotive is finally replaced.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927539_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
