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In February 1953, Marcus Lipton suggested in the House of Commons that the fog had caused 6,000 deaths and that 25,000 more people had claimed sickness benefits in London during that period. [33] Mortality remained elevated for months after the fog. [30] A preliminary report, never finalised, blamed those deaths on an influenza epidemic. [1]
The thick, smoky fog enveloped London between 4 and 7 December 1962. [3] [4] Visibility was reduced to a level that lighted objects could only be seen as far as 50 feet away, while the smog caused the cancellation of flights at Heathrow Airport as well as the closure of the airport itself. [4]
An 1871 New York Times article refers to "London, particularly, where the population are periodically submerged in a fog of the consistency of pea soup". The fogs caused large numbers of deaths from respiratory problems. [15]
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The Great Smog of 1952 in London. Early in December 1952, a cold fog descended upon London. Because of the cold, Londoners began to burn more coal than usual. The resulting air pollution was trapped by the inversion layer formed by the dense mass of cold air. Concentrations of pollutants, coal smoke in particular, built up dramatically.
On the evening of 4 December 1957, two trains crashed in dense fog on the South Eastern Main Line near Lewisham in south-east London, causing the deaths of 90 people and injuring 173. An electric train to Hayes had stopped at a signal under a rail bridge, and the following steam train to Ramsgate crashed into it, destroying a carriage and ...
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