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Loose papers 1945-1949

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"City of Stoke-on-Trent Gas Department: Report on Smoke Abatement Presented to the Housing Committee by the City Gas Engineer", February 1945
Arnold Marsh, M.Sc. Tech., M.Inst.F., Secretary of the National Smoke Abatement Society, "Smoke and Industry", published in Art and Industry, April 1945
"Atmospheric Pollution in Leicester: A Scientific Survey" issued by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1945
Patrick Thornhill, B.A., "Life and Science: The Air We Breathe", 1947
Alfred Wade, F.R.San.I. (Fellow), Chief Sanitary Inspector, City of Nottingham, "Atmospheric Pollution: The Present Position and the Outlook for the Future", published in The Sanitarian, Vo.56, No.6, March 1948
F J Redstone, Chief Sanitary Inspector, City and County of Bristol, "Atmospheric Polluction", presented at the Sanitary Inspectors Association Annual Conference, June 1948 
"Hearth and Home", reprinted from The Times, November 1948
"Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Fuel Research: The Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution", 1948
W P D Logan, M.D., B.Sc., Glasg., D.P.H., Assistant Medical Statistician, General Register Office, "Fog and Mortality", 1949 
Professor J Johnstone Jervis, "The Combat with Atmospheric Pollution", 1949
Allan W Ritchie, "Representation by the Chief Sanitary Inspector on Smoke Abatement in the City", by July 1949

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Loose papers 1945-1949

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