Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-17
C|TY's SMOKE NUISANCE
is MENACE TO HEALTH
Chief Health Officer Levy Advocates
Law to Eliminate Great
SCOT Clouds.
OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE so
Scheme Proves to Be Benefit Instead
Of Hardship to Manufacturers, Who
Get Full Benefit From Fuel In.
stead OF Wasting Part.


Not only from an economic. CONNER
cial and domestic standpoint would
the city be benefited II the smoke
nuisance Of Richmond was abated. but
the health Of the community would
be better cared for.
This is the gist OF n statement made
last night by Chief Health Officer T..
Z. Levy, stanch advocate OF the
adoption of an ordinance by the City
Council looking toward the elimination
OF this nuisance, which has greatly
Increased in the past few years.
With Richmond's commercial growth
have come better and bigger manu-
factories with their ever-increasing
number OF stacks. From the latter
containing SCOT and carbon.
EVERY HOME IN CITY
AFFECTED BY SMOKE
Upon the health of residents this
great volume OF smoke has nm Indirect.
as well as a direct effect. Post mortem
examinations upon bodies Of city dwell
crs show their lungs to be black from
the constant inhalation of the SCOT
and carbon from the smoke produced
from the giant stacks throughout the
city. IT prevents in many cases, per
sons in feeble health from carrying
out instructions of physicians and
health authorities. such recon-
nendations TO live and sleep In the
open.
There is not home in the city which
ls not directly affected by this nuisance.
On windy days the good housekeeper
VIII keep all doors and windows closed
70 prevent minute particles Of coal
from entering and casting a thin coat
or SCOT upon furniture. walls and floors
From the economical standpoint. ex.
perments have shown conclusively
that II Is cheaper for the manufac-
nj ~
smoke Issuing from their huge Chin
neys IT carries with IT carbon and
PARTICLES OF coal which form the best
fuel. and to ge: the best results from
hard or soft coal. IT should he con-
sumed and not allowed to float away.
Dir. LEVY FAvons
INSPECTION OF SMOKE
Il do not advocate" said DR.. Levy.
"a law which would make II an Of
Tense to burn soft coal. That would
hurt. not help. What Richmond needs
In smoke inspector. The Council
should not create an office for a poll
tician. but should make one for an
expert engineer, whose business would
not be 10 hail people Into Police Court
but to show tho heads OF our great
manufactures how to get tho hest re-
suits from their fuel. and at the same
time prevent the smoke nuisance"
DR.. Levy said that he had given the
question much study for several years
and had supplied the Administrative
Board with mass of information con-
corning the evil effects of this nuisance.
In recent years the smoke nuisance
In richmond has been on the In
crease Dr. Levy continued. and some
t'"Ps should be taken by the autnori-
t'eA 20 pun an emo 10 IT Other cities
nave done 80 ana found that the el'mi-
union o, me smoke clouds has work
:" Woi"tfS' II ""cs not nperai:
hh '"HHll upon manufacturers they
ore "'ut" ana Nho" IL after thcE have
Moi ~" !" o"-"Per"Hon WIN IN" au-
,hoi''teS- heE nave round mat they
h"rH "eem 'he gamers from imam
'i'I STANDPOINT by ahaNnE the nui-
Hah'e ihfF are SAVING iuei whio:i
'",x t"fine'iS wasted
rms question mas not only received
ch'tI"' attention IN many cities. but II
embraces one OF the most prominent
"C'Nlt"S o! inc American civic Assoc
CATION p'' Levy said. This organi-
aN"n mas ISSUED exhaustive literature
on inc subject. The city OF Chicago
mas puolshed volume telling of the
everything lsNors the abolition OF