Domestic Fires and Fuels

Abstract

THE Air Pollution Board—a sub-committee appointed by the Manchester Corporation in 1915 to study the smoke nuisance—initiated an investigation of the domestic coal fire by Mrs. M. W. Fishenden. In 1917–18 the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research made grants in aid of the work, and now the Fuel Research Board has, with the concurrence of the Manchester Board, published the results,¹ expressing the opinion that “the investigation into the efficiency of the open fire has yielded a collection of carefully ascertained data, from which it is believed that a new departure can be made in dealing with the whole question of the use of smokeless solid fuel in domestic fires.”