COSTLY FOGS.
It. has been calculated by those fn a position to know tlmt a real November fog cost"? London about £50,000 a day, of which the gas companies receive a considerable proportion, the total consumption of gas on the occasion of a foggy day being about 150,000,000 cubic feet, casting £24.000, of which £B,OOO may be put down to the fog's account. In addition to the cost in money there is, moreover, the cost in life, for although fogs ere valuable disinfectants, awing to the presence of carbon, familiarly designated smuts, in large quantities, there is no doubt that they act deleieriously upon the public health, especially upon that of those afflicted with asthma and bronchitis. A series of fogs about Christmas, 1881, for instance, so increased the mortality in London that in the course of a few weeks over 4,000 people died who otherwise would probably have survived.
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Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 8
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150COSTLY FOGS. Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 8
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