Report of the committee of the Smoke Abatement Exhibition

Abstract

THIS volume, which has just been issued, presents many points of interest, as it is the outcome of the labours of a Committee formed in 1881 with a view to ascertain what means could be adopted to check the growing evils arising from the evolution of smoke which attends the combustion of bituminous coal. It may be said to be the continuation of work undertaken by the several Parliamentary Committees which met in 1819, 1843, and in 1845. In the previous efforts attention appears to have been mainly directed to lessening the nuisance arising from smoke from factory and other furnaces, but in the present movement it is evident that the importance of the domestic fireplace as a foe, if not the chief one, to the purity of the air of cities, has been generally recognised and has been the main object of attack.

Report of the committee of the Smoke Abatement Exhibition.

(London: Smith & Elder, 1883.)