Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — Coal Smoke and Health. [ARTICLE]

Coal Smoke and Health.

The medical oflicer of health for Manchester, England, presents evi dence to show that the working life of the people of that city is shortened ten years by the acids in smoke and the carbon particles which invade the lungs. Surgeon J. W. Stoner, of the United States public health service traces a connection between a smokj atmosphere and the drinking habit* of the people. Women living in sun less, gloomy homes, attired in som her clothes, breathing a smoke-fillet atmosphere, are prone to be irritable to scold and whip their children ant to nag their husbands who flee to the saloon for solace and relief. Surgeon Stoner is also of the opinion thal children reared in a depressing at mosphere are dull, apathetic and even criminally inclined. The smoke prob iem is still important.