The Evil. of Smoke Year after year we listen to
welt justified protests against the pollution of atmosphere by smoke, but the evil, if slightly diminished, continues. One thousand tons of sulphuric acid are daily poured into the London atmosphere, said Dr. Lessing, at the annual conference of the National Smoke Abatement Society on Tuesday, and the damage done is probably £1 per head of the population---4apart from the ,disastrous effects upon health. More gas and electricity arc among the remedies. For the rest, the use of smokeless fuel offers the best Means of abatement ; but the difficulty lies in its price. It would be well worth while to spend some public money on intensive research into the problem of securing a cheap and satisfactory smokeless fuel. When that is available legislation could do the rest. * * *
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