SMOKE NUISANCE IN LONDON

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21905, 5 October 1936, Page 9

SMOKE NUISANCE IN LONDON

DOMESTIC FIRES NOW WORST PROBLEM DEMONSTRATION OF METHODS OF ABATEMENT' (BRITISH OrnclAL WSBKLE3S.) (Received October 4, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, October 2. A smoke abatement exhibition, designed to illustrate the effects of smoke and the methods by which air pollution can be measured, and how the nuisance can be abated, has been opened in the Science Museum, South Kensington. Dr, des Yoeux, who presided, recalled that 36 years ago there used to be about 35 or 40 thick fogs in London every winter, and some of them lasted a week. Had the conditions then existing continued unchecked, London would now be uninhabitable. Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister for Health,' said smoke was a real and insidious enemy to health, and cost the nations many millions every year. Conditions were better now than at the end of the last century. In future progress he thought legislation would be a less important item than prudent administration, and co-operation between public authorities, manufacturers, and voluntary organisations. Domestic smoke was now the largest part of the problem.