SMOKE NUISANCE.
CONDITIONS AT CALCUTTA.
REPORT OF COMMISSION.
CALCUTTA. July 15
Although Calcutta cannot be described as an industrial area, comparable with those of Europe and America, the Bengal Smoke Nuisances Commission has issued a pungent report.
"The air we breathe in Calcutta," savs the report, "is polluted and stagnant, and in some districts for long periods is unfit for human consumption. Residents of seme districts are gassed nightly for hours, and lifo is awful."
The commission, nevertheless, has done much good work. The period of the daily discharge of black smoke from steamers and factories has been reduced from 200,000 to 5500 minutes.
" Calcutta's greatest smoke problem," the commission reports, " is the deadly, low-lying domestic and kindred smoke, which at present is exempted and against which, therefore, no action is possible. The daily period of discharge of this kind of smoke is more than 1,500,000 minutes. As a result, Calcutta's respiratory diseases cause the largest death-rate of any disease, and half the death, among babies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20625, 25 July 1930, Page 11
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