A MODERN BOON.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 4

A MODERN BOON.

"There is one aspect of the generally admitted advantages of electricity which is sometimes, from familiarity, forgotten. I refer to lighting," writes Mr A. C. Cramb in the Munieipal Journal. "An incalculable burden of sickness caused by strain and nervious anxiety would be abolished once and for all — to the great benefit of industry and of tbousands of households — if wberever men and women worked, or performed any task requiring concentration under artificiai light, the kind of artificiai light supplied would be of the intensity and of the quality which is made possible by modern electrical science. Nobody who has only seen the Black Countiy during the past years has any idea how aptly this part of England was so nicknamed 50 years ago, and how depressing was the immense pall of smoke with its aecompanying dirt. To-day, chiefly owing to the high percentage of electrification in the industry of the Black Country, the smoke pall has been lifted. The Black Country is today cleaner than many other industrial areas in Great Britain in which, for technical reasons, the high percentage of industrial elechas not ygt been aoWeyed," ^ ^ u