It does not take "a London particular" to send cough-racked Britons to their beds or their graves. The tight little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke."
"We are a great community hospital of 800 beds," said Dr. Joules, "but during February and March we ceased to be a general hospital. We had...
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