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Sanitary Effects of Soft-Coal Smoke

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 38.

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Sanitary Effects of Soft-Coal Smoke

THE belief that smoke from soft coal may have beneficial sanitary effects is gaining ground. It is claimed that the sulphur in the coal, when burned, becomes sulphurous acid gas, a well-known disinfectant. Further, that creosote and its allied products are thrown off with the fumes of bituminous coal, and that an atmosphere charged with carbolic acid must be freer from germs of disease than an apparently purer air.—Public Opinion.