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THE smoke nuisance, like certain other public abuses, is rapidly approaching the acute phase which seems necessary before the patient town dweller changes his tone from an inarticulate murmur to a muttered complaint sufficiently loud to awaken the slumbering authority to a sense of his duty.

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  1. Soot: its Character and Composition. By Cohen and Ruston. (lourn. Soc. Chem. Ind., December 15, 1911.)

  2. Air Pollution in Glasgow and Other Towns in Scotland. By Pecer Fyfe. Paper read at the Manchester Smoke Abatement Conference, November, 1911.

  3. The Sootfall of London (The Lancet, January 6, 1912.)

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C., J. Soot 1 . Nature 88, 598–599 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/088598a0

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