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Loose papers 1955-1957

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"Atmospheric Pollution (with particular reference to the Report of the Committee on Air Pollution under Sir Hugh Beaver)", presented by E W Winchester, F.R.(San) I., (Fellow), Chief Sanitary and Housing Inspector, Metropolital Borough of St Pancras, January 1955
Arnold Marsh, O.B.E., M.Sc.Tech., M.Inst.F., Director, National Smoke Abatement Society, "Smoke and the Law: A Paper to the Yorkshire Section of the Institute of Fuel", March, 1955
W C Turner, M.D., D.P.H., D.I.H., "Atmospheric Pollution", reprinted from Weather, Vol. X, No. 4, April 1955 
Frits W Went, "Air Pollution", Scientific American, May 1955 
J L Burn, "Smog in the North West", 1955 
Robert E Waller, B.Sc., Medical Research Council Staff, and Patrick J Lawther, M.B., M.R.C.P., Medical Professorial Unit, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, "Some Observations on London Fog", December 1955
Sir Hugh Beaver, M.INST.C.E., M.I. Chem.E., "The Control of Air Pollution and the Burden on Sanitary Inspectors", c.1955
"Smog News", 1956
"Press Release from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: The Smog of January, 1956", February 1956 
W P D Logan, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.H., Chief Medical Statistician, General Register Office, "Mortality from Fog in London, January, 1956", March 1956 
Conference of Heating Engineers and Others Interested in Smoke Abatement: Address given by Professor A B Semple, April 1956
"University of Durham King's College, Department of Civil Engineering: The Clean Air Act, 1956' by Peter C G Isaac, B.Sc.(Eng.), S.M., M.I.C.E., F.R.S.H., Senior Lecturer in Public Health Engineering, October 1956
"Atmospheric Pollution on Teesside" by A.H. Basford, D.P.A., M.R.S.H., Chief Public Health Inspector, West Hartlepool, November 1956
"Smog and the Beaver Report" by Dr H L Settle, M.Sc., M.D., D.P.H., F.R.S.H., Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster. c1957
"The Clean Air Act 1956: A Guide for Industrialists", January 1957
"Environmental Public Health Services: Clean Air" by A C Saword, D.P.A., F.R.S.H., F.A.P.H.I., Chief Public Health Inspector, Hull. June 1957
"Clean Air: An Economic, Social and Administrative Problem" by A Gilpin, B.Sc. (Econ.), Inspector for Air Pollution, County Borough of West Bromwich, September 1957
Department of Extra Mural Studies, University of London. Course on Scientific Study of Atmospheric Pollution. Paper by Dr W C Turner. December 1957
A reprint from 'Air Pollution', edited by M W Thring, M.A., F.Inst.P, F.Inst.F., M.I.Chem.E., 1957
'World Health Organisation Technical Report Series, No.157. Air Pollution: Fifth Report of the Expert Committee on Environmental Sanitation'. 1957

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