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Twentieth Annual Report of the Bombay Smoke-nuisances Commission for the year 1933-34

1934

In Karachi and Ahmedabad the work was done by Inspectors in addition to their boiler inspection work.3 4. The following table summarises and compares the work of the year and that of the preceding year in the three areas :— Observations of chimneys. [...] The decrease in the number of observations is partly due to the fact that the Smoke Nuisances Inspector had to assist in boiler inspection work in the Island of Bombay and had to undertake an inspection tour for 10 days in the Kolaba and Ratnagiri Districts but the chief reason for the fall is the abandonment of the practice of taking short-time observations simultaneously with full hourly observ [...] The decrease in the number of visits paid to factories is due to the above causes and also to the fact that in the previous year special visits had to be paid to the smaller industrialists to explain the requirements of the newly added sections 9-A and 9-B of the Act. [...] The cause of the increase in the number of observtions is due to more time being available for smoke nuisance work in Karachi City owing to the reduction of inspection tours brought about by the completion of the Sukkur-Barrage Work and also 011 account of grouping of boilers in the District. [...] For each of the 288 observations of the chimneys for one hour at Karachi during the yea-2 the average emission was equal to 1. 55-1 minutes per hour of dense black smoke as against 1.283 per hour for the preceding year.
agriculture environment
Pages
9
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142664
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Frontmatter
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Twentieth Annual Report Of The Bombay. Smoke Nuisances Commission for the Year 1933-34.
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