Noise
Sir, —There is always a tendency on the part of correspondents who are anxious to ventilate a personal opinion to cite scientific authorities as supporters of it Actually no Briton, ancient or modern, has much to learn about the evil effects of continual noise on the nervous mechanisms. As the victims of an overcrowded society we know all about them. If “What About It?”
habitually suffers the sensations of an earthquake from the normal routine procedures of a local factory obviously the workers in it must all be ripe for admission to a mental home. It is also high time for the neighbourhood as a whole to protest—or move house. Noises made by neighbours’ children, wireless sets, motor mowers, circular saws, and what have you can only be abated by personal protest from the sufferer to those responsible for them. Anonymously invoking the law to prevent any form of annoyance will get the complainant nowhere.—Yours, etc., CARACTACUS. October 20, 1961.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29651, 23 October 1961, Page 3
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