Smoke in Britain Costs Large Towns £70,000,000 a Year
Rec. 8.30 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 21. The National Smoke Abatement Society in a new publication, “ Guilty Chimneys,” estimated that smoke directly cost Britain at least £100,000,000 a year and cost the inhabitants of large towns at least £70,000,000. The publication said Manchester housewives who do their own washing spend an average of one hour longer at the washtub every wash day than housewives at Harrowgate, which results in a sum total of time wasted in washing annually the equivalent to 668 years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26909, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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