Records of the Glasgow Public Health Department relating to Pollution Control

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This series includes Smoke Diagrams (D-HE4/4/1); Photographs of Smoke Inspection (D-HE4/4/2); Eastern District Smoke Notification Book (D-HE4/4/3); Smoke Registers (D-HE4/4/4); Smoke Reports (D-HE4/4/5); Letter Books - Smoke (D-HE4/4/6); Glasgow Boundaries 1912 - Black Smoke Photograph album (D-HE4/4/7); Complaints Books - Smoke (D-HE4/4/8); Steam Wagon Ledger (D-HE4/4/9); Topical Acts, Bye-Laws or Regulations for control of Smoke (D-HE4/4/10); Copies of Circulars (D-HE4/4/11); Clean Air Act Smoke Control Order (D-HE4/4/12); Correspondence file of the Smoke Inspectors (D-HE4/4/13).
As early as 1857 there was an Act for the Abatement of the Nuisance arising from the Smoke of Furnaces in Scotland with amendments in 1861 and 1865. The 1890 Glasgow Police Act included a clause relating to the requirement for the owners of premises to allow smoke tests. This was incorporated into the Public Health Act 1897. In 1956 the Clean Air Act came into force with much more stringent requirements and, perhaps more importantly, subsidies to pay for the necessary changes.
These records have been arranged chronologically and by series.
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