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occasions quite as great. Since then, however,
a new factor in dust creation has arisen in the
motor cars and cycles that are so numerous and so
ubiquitous, particularly on Sundays.
It is not merely a nuisance to endure, destructive
as it is to clothing and injurious to tradesmen's
goods in shops and elsewhere, but it is, and
certainly will be a serious matter to the health of
many people. The dust of towns is worse and
more harmful than the dust of the country, inasmuch
as it is a foul dust abounding in septic matter,
that is organic matter in various stages of decomposition,
germs of disease and filth of every
description.
This, in increasing quantities, will come in
contact with eyes, throats and lungs, and is potent
for mischief of a grave character. The nuisance
threatens to be excessive this year and means
should certainly be taken at once to cope with it ;
all the main roads should be watered on Sunday at
least once and thoroughly.
Theoretically and correctly the amount of
water put on the roads should vary somewhat with
the state of the weather, a hot sun and an easterly
wind obviously requiring more water to lay the dust
than would a cloudy windless day, and if it were
possible, and it should be, water carts ought to be
provided with the means of using a larger or a
smaller amount of water according to the state of
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