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THE first twelve years of the twentieth century will be memorable for many advances, but few will bear more important fruit in the future both as regards our health and welfare than the strenuous attempts that have been made continuously during that period to arouse the public to a sense of the criminality of wasting the fuel supplies of the country by the methods employed in the generation of heat and power from bituminous fuel, which have resulted in a pollution of the atmosphere that towards the end of the last century had become a national scandal.
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The Smoke Problem 1 . Nature 89, 139–141 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089139a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/089139a0