Show automobile A BLESSING OR A BANE london jay 16 it has only required the check given to the automobile the mighty aristocrat as it has been called to excite the anels to renew the old cry against the automobile as a danger to health and in this connection it may be interesting to quote a few medical men upon this very subject at a meeting of the incorporated corp orated society of medical officers ot health dr herbert jones of hereford said 1 I think that the advent of the automobile will have an appreciable preci able and direct effect upon public health long before the end of tha next quarter of a century we shall 1 edge our indebtedness to the automobile from the public health point of view just as we have acknowledged it during the last twenty anve years to the bicycle let us consider the effect of upon the housing question in the large towns and 0 the taking away from the bentres centres of these towns of all horses carriages carts and wagons it has long been admitted that the destruction of roadways is accomplished chiefly by the hammer of the iron ahod horse which brings me to what is the most important effect which automobiles have upon public health I 1 mean lessening ot disease which is caused by the wholesale als of organic material it is not too much to say that the replacing of horses by automobiles will result in the reduction of an appalling amount of infantile complaints in large industrial bentres centres cen tres dr meredyth young medical officer of health tor gosport who uttered a strong indictment against the road watering machine for laying dust said 1 I used to suffer from broncel tia and asthma but since I 1 began to drive an automobile I 1 have been free from both the antl more violent than logical in their remarks dr sergeant medical officer of health for lancashire said amid laughter 1 I think there Is some justification for the application recently made to allow one to walk abou with a gun to shoot automobilists at ight dr settle of on furness aalde 1 I have often thanked heaven that I 1 live in an age ot bicycles but never tor the coming of automobiles by all means let us have aerial navigation but let ua draw tho alno at these infernal dust raining death deal ing engines ELECTRIC LIGHT FREE london july 17 the tonbridge Ton bridge urban council Is supplying electric light free to new customers curing june july and august 5 T i |