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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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ducing gas which contains sulphuretted hydrogen as an impurity—other
sulphur compounds being apparently now disregarded,
as dangers to health (vide South Suburban Gas
Act, 1905, section 2, and the London Gas Act, 1905, sections
5 and 7).
Under these circumstances I am unable to recommend
any action being taken under the Public Health Acts with
regard to sulphur impurities generally in gas, excepting, of
course, sulphuretted hydrogen.
Joseph Priestley,
February 19th, 1906.