SMOKE NUISANCE
Sir, —With Christchurch city expanding so rapidly, the smog nuisance is bound to increase every winter and it does seem stpuid to poison God’s fresh air with tfye filth of coal smoke and then to expand our hospitals to cope with the increase of patients which results. Go for a walk on the hills or down by the sea, especially on a sunny day, and an attack of influenza will disappear; but when one returns to our smoke-spoilt city at dusk then the disappearance of the healthgiving sun and its ultra-violet rays, combined with the lethal descent of coal smoke, immediately cause the ’flu germs to get active again. Do we want a repetition of London’s fatal smogs? Why not an all-out offensive against smoke and other causes of ill-health? —Yours, etc., FRANK S. PYNE. June 6, 1954,
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27369, 7 June 1954, Page 2
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