Show SMOKE DANGER THREATENS LONDON Is the Name of the New Disease London April 16 A new danger threat threatens ens ena unsuspecting Londoners The heavy blue blus smoke emitted occasionally from motor omnibuses taxicabs and motor cia card carat caused by over lubrication Is it Is said the cause of ot a new disease and of a number of minor illnesses v Eleven prominent American doctors led by Dr H Holbrook Curtis have pe petitioned petitioned petitioned the United States board of ot health to stamp out the blue smoke danger inthe In Inthe Inthe the streets of ot New York Dr Curtis claims that this smoke causes caus the new disease iltis nitis a form torm of hay fever So common has this malady become in in New York that as a fashionable disease it Is la rivaling ap appendicitis appendicItis A East End physician was seen yesterday This blue smoke must not be confused with the ordinary creo creosote c creosote eo sote vapor exuded from the exhaust pipe of ut motor cars can he said Headaches Are Produced Petrol or creosote vapor is undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly beneficial to the public health Partially Par Partially burned or carbonised matter is a splendid antiseptic clearing the air of at atall all germs and impurities On the other hand band lubricating oil smoke Is In many ways a danger to health Hundreds of Londoners must have no noticed noticed noticed the choking depressing effect of ot such smoke when they have encountered a or taxicab on fire as the street urchin says belching out thick clouds of ot nauseating vapor This smoke especially when it is III mixed with dust has bas an irritating effect on the membranes of ot the nose and throat some sometimes sometimes sometimes times causing serious inflammation The stomach Is lt apt to be affected also and nausea and headaches are produced When I have been motoring the blue smoke of at a carelessly lubricated car in front of at me has had a most upsetting ef effect effect effect upon me spoiling my nerve and destroying de destroying destroying any appetite I may have had Smoke Has Depressing Effect People inclined to asthma are serious seriously ly affected by this smoke and consumptives consumptives tives fives are also greatly irritated by It Mentally it has a very disturbing de depressing depressing depressing pressing effect upon upen certain people caus causing causIng causing ing irritability and unreasonable despond despondency despondency ency eney How can this smoke be banished from London I suggest that it be made a punishable offense for tor and taxicab drivers to lubricate their motors mo motors motors tors carelessly Apart from the Injurious effect of ot the blue smoke upon the health ladles ladies are unanimous in complaining that their dresses are ruined by it It is high time the matter was investigated by the and taxi taxicab taxicab taxicab cab companies and also by the police |