Smokeless City (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Smokeless City Those persons, who have paid any attention to the subject of smoke and air pollution, and, considering the many millions of human beings affected, they are remarkably few in number, are aware that, roughly speaking, there are two kinds of smoke - industrial and domestic. The efforts of reformers in the past have been directed almost entirely against the former, and the public spirited work carried on for many years by various Coal Smoke Abatement Leagues in the face of active obstruction and of official apathy, seem to be within measurable distance of success, since the present Minister of Health has recently undertaken to bring in a Bill embodying the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Smoke and Noxious Vapours Abatement. The battle therefore against industrial smoke may be said to have been won in principle, but it is scarcely necessary to warn enthusiasts that there are many parliamentary dangers to overcome, and that governments are not as a rule particularly zealous in forcing through bills of a non-vote-catching nature. Even if we can assume that a thoroughly satisfactory measure is passed and duly enforced, the melancholy fact remains that, if we are fortunate enough to get rid of industrial smoke, we shall, nevertheless, remain dirtier than other European countries owing to domestic smoke. The relative share of industrial smoke and domestic smoke in polluting our atmosphere has been hotly disputed, and the conclusions arrived at in this book will doubtless arouse much opposition. But in any case there can be no question as to the competence of the writers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.