CITY SMOKE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5709, 10 January 1876, Page 3

CITY SMOKE.

To tin* Ktlitor : Sir, — Is there nothing to lie <Iniu' t<> abate the nuisance of city ■■ moLo ' .Suiiic tune ago w e had one nuts.inco m the shape of .1 soap faetoiy expelled fioni uty hounds, to take up its abode in the sweetsmelling suburb of Parnell ; but wo have others left, two in Queen-street, viz., the mills and the brewery; one in Wellesloystrcet, poisoning the air all round ; one in Chapel-street, and two in Freeman's I Jay. Is there no law to compel the owners to build their chimneys higher, and thus take the smoke fro n the reach of the people's lungs ? How can wo expect our children to be healthy, so long as \iti.itcd air is breathed all daylong? I hope Tnspectoi <<oldic will v,<> on some inijnisitoiial visitation, and lining l).iek Ins lepoit th.it lie found nothing objectionable, save some slight tulle hcie or there, which may easily be lemedied. I only wish his nose was placed am hm lc.ich of them all day long, and then he would be forced to act. Will not our newspapeis — our public defenders — act their pait, and never cease till, by some means, all siuli abuses are remedied ? — I am, tec. , A Sl'I 1 I LI L.