In the industrialized areas the atmosphere is polluted by smoke from domestic and factory chimneys and gaseous effluent from a wide variety of factories, motor vehicles and diesel locomotives.
Their sums are connected with the price of soot and the price of sweeping chimneys.
The smoke from the high chimneys pours out over the terraced houses, as it has poured out for a hundred years.
Smoke coming out of chimneys, or anything slightly warm, in the normal process of events rises and disperses in the atmosphere.
In the 1950s and 1960s experts advocated the removal of chimneys and gas fires.
I suppose that is because the chimneys are very easy to see.
All countries use tall chimneys as a means of dispersing sulphur dioxide and other pollutants.
Our industrialists have taken action in some cases, and in many cases they have dispersed the contamination by putting in high chimneys.
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