Consumption of smoke : copy of a letter addressed to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, by the General Board of Health, dated 20th July 1854 : with a digest of the information obtained with regard to the operation of inventions for the consumption of smoke.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Consumption of smoke : copy of a letter addressed to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, by the General Board of Health, dated 20th July 1854 : with a digest of the information obtained with regard to the operation of inventions for the consumption of smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    REPORT T. Taylor, Esq. to Viscount Palmerston, Gt.C.B. General Board of Health, Whitehall, July 20. 1854. My Lord,—I am directed by the Greneral Board of Health to enclose, for the information of your Lordship, a digest of the information with regard to the operation of inventions for the consumption of smoke, which has been elicited by the inquiries of the Board among persons who have employed inventions for this purpose.—I have, &c., (Signed) T. TAYLOR, Secretary. Viscount Palmerston, Gr.C.B., &c., &c., &c. In accordance with the request of Viscount Palmerston, conveyed in Mr Fitzroy's letter of the Slst day of October 1853, the Board have instituted very extensive inquiries among those acquainted with the means for the prevention of smoke. * * * * From the evidence obtained, it appears that smoke has been entirely prevented, in many cases, in that large class of furnaces used for boiling, as for steam-engines, brewers and dyers' pans, &c., without any alteration of the furnace, where it had in the first instance been well constructed and carefully attended to, and that it is easy very considerably to diminish the smoke commonly emitted from such furnaces without any extraordinary_ care, by alterations neither expensive nor troublesome, if the furnace is not very badly constructed. It also appears, from this evidence, that in many such cases smoke has been prevented by good stoking alone, and by slightly opening the furnace door after putting on coal, and that smoke from all furnaces may be much more greatly