Topical Acts, Bye-Laws or Regulations for control of Smoke - Home and Abroad

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The folder is labelled T M Ashford MBE, 20 Cochrane C 1. Includes an Act for the Abatement of the Nuisance arising from the Smoke of furnaces in Scotland, 1857 with amendments 1861 and 1865; the Coatbridge Burgh Act 1885; Smoke Nuisance in London - report of the Chief Officer of the Public Control Department, 1904; Proof by Colin Park, Senior Smoke Inspector, for the Glasgow Corporation Order with list of prosecutions, 1921; details of work carried out by smoke inspectors, 1924; Smoke Abatement in Bengal, 1926; Report by the Town Clerk with regard to the prosecution of smoke offences occurring in the harbour, docks and River Clyde, 1929; Report on Air Purification and Smoke Abatement for the Committee on Environmental Services, 1930; Method of Determination of Duration and Density of Smoke Emission from Industrial Chimneys, 1930; letter from the Ministry of Transport on smoke emissions from vehicles, 1931; and memorandum to divisional medical officers on an application for bone boiling by WAH [William Horne?], 1954. Index at the front of the folder although not all items are included. Includes two Department of Health circulars on housing from 1949 which may have been put in the front of the file in error.
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Pollution

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