TRAFFIC JAM PERIL. MONTREAL, Canada, June 26. Residents in the large congested cities, whero the motor-car exhausts are constantly pouring carbon monoxide gas into the air,. will shortly be forced to take to aviation as the prinicipal means of locomotion. This is the prediction of Dr. Bonewitz, Professor of Intestinal Surgery at New York Medical College and major-in-charge of the aviation service of the New York police. According to. the doctor, who is on a visit to Montreal, the inhabitants of big cities are slow’y poisoning themselves by daily doses of monoxide, which forms invisible clouds at busy street intersections. Experiments' on guinea-pigs during a traffic jam showed that gas intoxication took place within three minutes. The gas was not entirely, dissipated at a height of 200 ft. above the streets. Dr Bonewitz attributes the impatience of motorists in traffic jams signalised by excessive “honking,’ to irritation due to slow gas-poisoning.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1929, Page 8
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