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CHAPTER XIII Air Pollution GEORGE D. CLAYTON St^AhrMiollution is one of the foremost problems in public health today. People tTMP^ustrial areas are asking themselves, "Are we next?"--for episodes g|i!6se that occurred in Donora (Pennsylvania), the Meuse Valley, and `'""SwS^^xpression of this concern is the amount of newspaper space devoted ^ Boddy1 states: "One press clipping service has measured 55,000 fram^i^n'os, of newspaper space devoted exclusively to the Los Angeles smog ^nMonfid|n| 1949, '50, and '51. In addition, approximately 6,500 column E;n^^^?oI>ace has been devoted to editorial comment on the problem." These fe^^pfpplly'roniy to the Los Angeles area, and can be multiplied several times l^ffglnited States as a whole. This aroused public interest raises the ifetfee origin and date of the first concern regarding the effects of air I. History Sl)isVory of air pollution is the history of fuel, of increased industrializa- 8^flwpgrgvidng urban populations. An early prophetic clue of things to come IgJgy'eiS'in' 361 b.c., when Theophrastus noted that .``fossil substance called nTrjjjti'dr. along time, but the smell is troublesome and, disagreeable." By ?L5jTqo; -Horace was lamenting that the shrines of Rome were blackened u,^;in-l273, the first smoke abatement law was passed in England by ..was passed because of the fears of the people that the air ,^^f'^v,!vfc^i|fi&en'ta'l~ttrliealthruring-this^peribdj'i't'"was-`belie%d!'-that scpokfLrigverlburning coals would cause illness and even death. In 1306 the fl^^^e^mefsollpncerned that a Royal Proclamation was signed, prohibiting the }H(in`;London. Because an owner of an industry was- caught disft* TC jv^k-Broglamation^he.-was-tried,, found. guilty, ,.and.,jaiib.sequently il' the first recorded penalty given as a result of violating an air- ElMon:o&V . and the public, Proc. Natl. Air Pollution Symposium, Snd Sym , ms. 413