Getting Rid of London's Smoke
CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS MADE (British Official Wireless.) Received Sunday, 7 p.m. RUGBY, Oct, 2. The smoke abatement exhibition designed to illustrate the effects ol smoke, methods by which air pollution can be measured, aiid how the nuisance can be abated, has opened in the Science Museum, South Kensington. Dr. Des Voeux presided and recalled that 36 years ago there used to be some 35 to 40 thick fogs in London every winter and some ol them lasted a weok. Had conditions then existing continued unchecked, Loudon would now be uninhabitable.
Sir Kingsley Wood, Health Minister, said smoke was a real and insidious enemy of health and cost the nation many millions yearly. Conditions were better now than at the end of last century. In future progress ho thought legislation would be a less important item than prudent administration and cooperation between public authorities, manufacturers and voluntary organisations. Domestic smoke was now the largest part of the problem.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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