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The Educational Section was presided over by Mr. J. H.
Yoxall, M.P., and in this section many able papers were given,
producing discussions bearing upon the Education question as it
affects the health of the children, the question of the presence in
schools of underfed children being particularly brought to the
front. Papers were also read bearing upon the planning and
sanitary construction of schools.
Other Sections of the Congress were: One dealing with
Child Life and School Hygiene; One dealing with Bacteriological
Work; in which able papers were given on the question of the
bacteriological purity of water, milk, and other articles. One
paper dealt particularly upon the great risk there is of picking up
disease germs in public conveyances, and especially in railway
carriages, a Resolution being passed upon this subject with which,
we also, from our local experiences, shall be heartily in sympathy.
In the Section dealing with Engineering and Building, papers
were read on the Ventilation and Heating of Large Buildings, and
also very able papers and discussions bearing upon the Smoke
and Fog question.
The Hon. Rollo Russell in his paper on the Prevention of
Smoky Fogs, pointed out, very ably, the physical reasons producing,
and conducing to, the fogs which we have in London.
He showed that the character and persistence of London fogs
was not due to an excess of particles only, but to an excess of
particles of a certain kind; that for the production of fog, the
radiative and tarry particles from bituminous coal, which is the kind
of coal generally used in domestic fireplaces in London, were by
far the most effective, and that in New York, where the use of