EFFECTS OF SMOKE
NUISANCE IN LONDON METHODS OF ABATEMENT KENSINGTON EXIITRTTTON (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Oct. 3. A smoke-abatement exhibition, designed to illustrate the effects of smoke, methods by which air pollution can be measured, and bow the nuisance can bo abated, was opened in the science museum at South Kensington yesterday. Dr. Des Voeux, who presided, recalled that 36 years ago there used to be some 35 to 40 thick fogs in London every winter, and some of them lasted for a week. Had the conditions then existing continued unchecked, London would now be uninhabitable.
Fir Kingsley Wood, the Minister of Health, said that smoke was a real and insidious enemy of health and cost the nation many millions yearly. The conditions were better now than at the end of the last century. In future progress, he thought that legislation would be a less important item than prudent administration, and co-operation between the general public and the authorities. Domestic smoke was now the largest part of the problem. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 5
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