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Loose papers 1959-1965

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'Clean Air Smoke Control Area - The Campaign for Clean Air', c1959
Copy of The Unesco Courier with the headline "Smog: Must We Use Our City Air As A Sewer?", March 1959
"Wage War on Smog", printed by the Conservative Political Centre, December 1959 
Sir Patrick J Dolan, "Glasgow's Fogs cost £20,000,000 for period November 10 - February 21, 1959", 1959 
"Summary of Lectures in Air Pollution Course" by R S Scorer, M.A., Ph.D., and Arnold Marsh, O.B.E., M.Sc.(Tech.), M.Inst.F., c1959 
P. A. Sheppard, "The Effect of Pollution on the Heat Balance of the Atmosphere", c1959 
"Smoke Control (England and Wales): Summary of programmes submitted by local authorites for the establishment of smoke control areas" presented to Parliament by the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs by Command of Her Majesty, July 1960
Arnold Marsh, O.B.E., M.Sc.Tech., M.Inst.F., "Progress Review No.48: Air Pollution", December 1960
S R Craxford, "Air Pollution - Past, Present, and Future", from The Institute of Petroleum Review, Volume 15, No 173, May 1961
"Problems of Air Pollution" by A Archer, Chief Public Health Inspector, Borough of Halesowen, November 1961
R.S Scorer, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.), Reader in Applied Mathematics, Imperial College, "The Dispersion of Air Pollution", presented at the Association of Public Health Inspectors, Annual Conference 1961
"Clean Air: Report of a conference organised by the International Union of Local Authorities, at the initiative of its Public Health Committee", June 1962 
Arnold Marsh, O.B.E., M.Sc.Tech., M.Inst.F., Director, National Society for Clean Air, "Octavia Hill and Clean Air: A Smoke Abatement Pioneer", printed in Society of Housing Managers Quarterly Journal, October 1962
J P Barton, D.M.A., A.M.I.P.H.E., Deputy Chief Public Health Inspector, County Burgh of Walsall,"Some Aspects of Public Health - A Statistical Review: Air Pollution", printed in The Sanitarian, November 1962
"Smog" by G England (C.E.G.B.), December 1962
"Smoke Control (England and Wales) 1962-1966: Summary of programmes submitted by local authorities for the establishment of smoke control areas", presented to Parliament by the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs by Command of Her Majesty. December 1962
"London County Council: Fog in London - 3-7 December 1962" Health Committee Report (4.2.63) by the Medical Officer of Health. February 1963
J A Scott, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health, London County Council, "The London Fog of December, 1962", The Medical Officer, April 1963
"Air Pollution in Leeds: Report of A Study Group of the National and Munipal Affairs Section of the Leeds Junior Chamber of Commerce", March, 1965
Gordon D Friedelander, "Airborne Asphyxia - An International Problem", IEEE Spectrum, October 1965
"Clean Air: A Family Doctor Special", publlished by The British Medical Association, 1965

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