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Illustrations . Warning to avoid polluting the air near homes with miasma from decomposing household wastes . Miasma as a deadly danger not only to slum dwellers, but also to the middle class . Familiar places appear strange and the fog makes it difficult to distinguish friend from foe . Science uses ozone to cleanse the air of smoke, fog, and sulphur . Old King Coal and the Fog Demon . Contrast between the allegedly pure air and water of Pepys’s London and the murky conditions found in Mr. Punch’s London . “The New Zealander” . King Coal apologizes to Britannia . Fogged-out painters in the streets of Kensington . Smoke on the River Clyde in Glasgow . Industrial smokestacks and household chimneys near Kirkstall Road in Leeds . The Tower of London, damaged by polluted air . “A Dream of Green Fields” . “The Three Magnets” . The air of Sheffield on Sundays versus Mondays . Octavia Hill . Ernest Hart . Medal to commemorate the Smoke Abatement Exhibition You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. . “Smokeless” appliances advertisement . Sir William Blake Richmond, founder of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society, battles industrial smoke . Cyclops Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield . Paris smoke scale and the Ringelmann smoke scale . Old King Steam and Old King Coal observing infant electricity . “Link boys” . Coke being removed from the retorts at the Windsor Street Gasworks in Birmingham . Gas Light and Coke Company Works in Westminster . East Greenwich Gasworks . Gas scrubbers, Nine Elms Gasworks, London . Smoke from the Great Central Gasworks drifting over houses in Poplar, London . “Our Ideal: A Smokeless City” . Gasholder and Millennium Dome, Greenwich . Advertisement for “nutty slack” . Deaths and sulphur dioxide concentrations in London . United Kingdom household coal consumption, – . “The choice is yours,” cover of the official guide and catalogue of the Universal Smoke Abatement Exhibition in . United Kingdom coal output, – | Illustrations You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...