[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    casoo whore the routine samples showed the presonce of c7:oesaivG amounts of lead. Three supplies appeared to he dancerously plumbo-solvent, and further s-amplcs v/ere taken and investigations made. ATAOSPiifRIG POLLllTIdi; The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has, for some years, been making an investigation into the nature of atmospheric pollution, in v/hicli certain Local Authorities and other Bodies are co-operating, chiefly by the setting up find maintenance of deposit gauges of a standard pattern, and arranging for the contents thereof to Im an'ilysed at monthly intervals. As a result of the examination of the data so obtained for a number of years it is hoped eventually, ai-iong other objects, to provide some solution to the problem of the deterioration of stonework, paintv7ork and other property due to the corrosive nature of some elements of atmospheric pollution. The data also yields vital information in c onne ction m t h Town P Panning. Since the year 1936, the County Council have co-operated in the investigation b\?- agreeing to bear the cost of the analyses' of the contents of o. number of deposit gauges in County Districts, provided that each District Coimcil concerned 'would pay for the cost of the gauge, and permit their Sanitary Inspector to give it the necessary attention. Under these arrangements eight gauges have been sot up, which are situate ■ as shov/n below:- Keinhley B. Co^e Valley U.D. (I’larsden) . Ot 1,0 y U.L. Skipt on d Horsforth U.D, I'lorton Gernetery. Situated in .an open space in the Cemetery '.at Iiorton, Ig miles from the centre of the town in an easterly direction. The surroiJJiding district is residential. In the path of prevailing \7ind from industrial area. Black Hill. On embanlcnent of reservoir in exposed position. Approximately dv/elling liouses in the neighbourhood, the remoLinder of the land nearby being farmland. Lov; Bridge. On flat roof of a textile mill in built-up area. On noi-th-east side of dense industrial area. Public Library. Site renresents centre of the town. Built-up area with no trees, etc. no ar • In Marsden Park in a residential ojid mojiu- f a during area, seven miles south of Huddersfield. There are eight mc.jor factory chir.ineprs within one mile of the gauge . In nursery/ gardens, GOO yards south-west of the centre of the town. The district is a mrmufacturin^; one. At the rear of the Town Hall in a residential and manufacturing district. This gauge v/as not installed until let January,1946. It is situate'at the rear of 7G Broadgate 7'Jalk, Horsforth, which is in the centre of the built-up area. The surrounding district is residential. 17