Smoke abatement : a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the Exhibition, July 21st, 1884 / by Ernest Hart.
- Hart, Ernest, 1835-1898.
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Smoke abatement : a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the Exhibition, July 21st, 1884 / by Ernest Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![which approaches, is the steam coming from its funnel.” She said, “ I feel interested in this for the sake of the war vessels as well as for the sake of the ordinary abuse in the production of dense smoke in steamers which traverse the rivers of our great towns.” I am bound to refer to these instances, owing to the indifference shown to the results already obtained, because I believe that nothing but a strong public opinion brought to bear upon the heads of departments, and upon the respective technical professors, and the respective professional men employed in the con¬ struction of houses and the sanitation of cities will make the results which we have obtained fructify, or will lead to the progress of which the first elements are undoubtedly already practically furnished in this most valuable report. In the remarks which follow, I propose to deal : I, with the objections which have been raised to the prosecution of the movement; 2, to trace the steps which have been taken in collecting evidence as to the extent to which the evil exists, and the possibility of abating it; and to indicate the individual efforts which appear to be demanded by the evidence adduced ; 3, to offer a brief statement as to the results which have been attained and are within reach. Some objection has been made to the movement, on the ground that it is not a new one, and that the public have had the evils arising from smoke so fully brought before them as to render unnecessary the formation of a society for the purpose. It is true, as we have already seen, that the movement is not a new one, as it existed in a crude form from a very early period. Royal pro¬ clamations prohibited the production of smoke, and various appliances for preventing its production were devised, but until the formation of the Smoke Abatement Committee, over which I have had the honour to preside, in virtue of my labours in initiating it, the subject had never been treated as one of public importance, and even national interest, nor had the description of the extent and character of the evils associated with the production of smoke been brought in a clear and definite way before the public. [L. 28.] B 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30477748_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
