The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-15
LONDON FOG A COSTLY EVIL
THE MONEY LOSS To BUSINESS.
put Ar @I,2JOyOOO A DAY.

Dense FOg and COSd More ~PreJudSclal
90 IAGe Than Gaholcra-Art Treasures
Being DeStrOycd-NO Municipal Enorts
co Abate the EVII-Canscs sF tho Faws
LONDON. Nov. 9O.-When a genuine Lon
don fog takes possession OF the English CAPT
tai an impsnetrable mist, heavily charged
with sulphur. blOts out everything. You
inhale IL and il ChOkes you: IL gets into
your eyes and they smart.
The pavement cannot be seen beneath
one = feet. The street lamps are turned ON,
but their rBys are swallowed up before
they nave travelled half the distance TO
the ground. Pedestrians lose their way
and vehicles mount the sidewalk. Some
times a driver does not see his mistake until
no finds himself mixed up with the show
goods in some shop window.
Business. OF course. becomes disOrgan-
lied. An expert has estimated that a day
Of fog in London means a general loss Of
81. 2SO.OOO.
After a week of bad London fog the re-
turns of deaths due to diseases OF the res
piratOry organs have several times been
twice and thrice the normal number. The
sulphuric acid i~rritates the mucous MEM
~"o' 'o"Ni"s 'P"'"'J SLo
oi caO@rrn anu Or"ncnus' Turing M m-
tense and continuous London fog at ths
end Of 1879 the deaths for six weeks wers
I zao 4 aOO ? an a a7s. 2 aaN and 2OIe. thoae
in the fourth week being nearly double
those in the first. Tn report Of the Regis
trar-GeneraI in February showed that dense
fog and cold were more prejudicial to life
than the cholera epidemics OF 1870, 1864
and I0Ra
"'r A''o
Inc deadly lngreoients OF a LONDON Iog
are the particles Of dust and soot which
are ALWAYS present in the atmosphere. Sir
w IT D,,ar ast;pnakaa that annuaIlv two
-. - 81 -, 1.na - oaoS -
UO"S VI 'o%l "oPooI ~ IT, -
at Kew, while a careful measurement con-
Quoted ut Chelsea some years ago shOwed
hat a deposit of ak tons an acre fell in a
s;D~la Hor,pi.ht
~ .u,o,o so.
Oh the Occ"S'oh oi d SIeet snpoAe AO@
fourteen years z the glass oil the green
houses at Kew Gardens. about three-quar-
tars of a aa,Iare mile in araa. could not ba
w..hoI "a had - 10 acraDad The daDoslt
49, 800.
Weighine InIee U0ns' -
An Analysis OF one OF these uepvsieg
showeo tnaI Tather HOTe Ln@n On11onuu
was carbon or coal; announcer tnlro va
nneiy puiVeri.eo mlnerai t 3 I mr
lFTtChting 10 inc lungs uhu mSy,,sev9u
parts IN every thousand were pnu aclu
anu nyorOchIorlc acc. lr't unn . tne snysI
yloienL haturei lhls VIII eAPlaLh 10y cnoa-
ing eneCC OF Lohu0n u~tnlOSp"ore uPO"
those VINO nave 10 hvS ~.
Az CONFERENCE heiu a lew uays aso 70
SSnsiuer Lhe evlLs o. 6 D smoK5 Mr
"Lnlann nLchnionu' ~ Hoy~. SN.e ~ sn,'
spoke OF the harm " do 20 opJocSs Oh srt'
aPPaLeI' har1'e, soono, "1S ~ - III
pToluerles Ahu InptsILy. III us ~ natn.
me was supPorD5u Oy rauISuusy, ouU.";n.;s.,
VINO was mehlpero Loysa nSNn
aPPOinteu Sonis oLty-nv1 yeSr Soon1
sioSr whether me plctures ol sno T T.I
Gallery should be transferred from Irafal-
gar square 70 Soutn N~ensInELoh
Fhraoay shaIyneo tne suIiaGe o. NsLIous
pictures anu caIne ~ Ihe colcislyn "as
smut, almost Ihvleinle 70 the naNeu eyo.
uepOsiteu upon the PicIuLeS ~ ~ Sa ~
essentlaI poison 10 VlIutene InaS y Oouis
only DE REMOVER Dy q soi'snU "h'On "Ou'~
destroy the Varhlsh. ~ d.
ne mhrpt9s III thS Di'iSn u5e
or Minlah LsicnIhOhu sslu, 49, si".ty
corroulng anu Deins PulveiI * sEnSo
aGtloh OF .ne snIpnI5LS ~ al SnG ~
When Lne irie1e OF tne raItnenon W PtaJso
nLne nIltish MuseuIn ST - ~
PlgInenC uePVslUeu on ~ n ~
%reehs cOulu 20 trnJJer. ~ ~ SeHIOn
those remnants hHu LOT the saInS reASO"
PgacLIcaHy utsappeaISu 100000
ne mIhuIactuIe OF Acs w@s Nns~r~
so uiIicult Dy, VoAa sLnOse Inat ~ roStlLtS
nam a AaW hau Deeh maue ehat LEI sno u
DE no SMOKE hIhprOiueIios GAPosou
20 the ar Tor a iOrtmgnt, Wouiu DeOohe
sticky owing TO tne presence IN Lne hIr or
sulphurlc acro' wnich In LIHe WouIu uesIToy
them entirely. ms own eSperAence wIs
mat lrssco PalhIIhs SouIu 20 ~ w S LEY