Ham Smokestack
Sir, —Are your. Ham correspondents aware that from October 8, 1955, T. S. Eliot’s “Yellow fog that rubs Its back upon the window panes” was officially banned from London. Manchester, Bolton, Bradford, Rochdale, and rebuilt Coventry were given the right to declare themselves smokeless. A clean air bill drawn up by the Beaver committee was to enable cities to make their own orders creating smoke control. No new industrial furnaces were to be installed in London unless smokeless. The total cost of air pollution in Britain, according to the Beaver committee, amounted to approximately £l5O million a year. Is it any wonder something was done? In 1952, out of every million, 745 inhabitants died from smog. Should there be one in a new clean land of sunshine, or a new smokestack?—Yours, etc., , NO RISKS. * July 15, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28952, 21 July 1959, Page 3
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