SMOKE NUISANCE

Evening Star, Issue 22461, 5 October 1936, Page 9

SMOKE NUISANCE

EFFORTS AT ABATEMENT EXHIBITION OF METHODS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, October 2. A smoke abatement exhibition, designed to illustrate the effects of smoke and the methods by which air pollution can be measured and how the nuisance can be abated, was opened in the Science Museum, South Kensington. Dr Des Yoeux presided, and recalled that 36 years ago there used to be some 35 to 40 thick fogs in London every winter, and some of them lasted a week. _ Had the conditions then existing continued’unchecked London would now be uninhabitable. Sir Kingsley Wood, the Health Minister, said that smoke was a real insidious enemy to health, and cost the nation many millions every year. Conditions were better now than at the end of the last century. In future progress he thought legislation would be a less important item than prudent administration, and co-operation between the public authorities, manufacturers, and voluntary organisations. Domestic smoke was now the largest part of the problem.