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IT is curious that a lady of Dr. Marie Stopes's scientific eminence should not have taken more trouble to inform herself upon this subject before writing upon it in NATURE (March 6 and April 24). In the first place, the difference in tonnage of coal used in domestic fires (40 million) is not insignificant in relation to that used in industry (100 million), and in the second place (apart from Dr. Stopes's personal sensations) the radiant efficiencies of electric radiators, gas fires and coal fires are, according to Dr. Margaret Fishenden, in the ratio of 5 : 3 : 1. For my sitting-room I prefer to use coke, and in the bedroom gas fires or electric radiators, all of which are smokeless—a very desirable matter.
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COHEN, J. Domestic Heating. Nature 117, 658 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117658d0
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