CITY NOISES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 8

CITY NOISES.

'If your correcpondent of yesterday believe that he is 'dinned to death,' may I humbly plead that I am 'doubly dinnod to death," " writes another complainant about city noises. "A factory employing a few men, women, or children and a steam engine thinks, that it is necessary to give a blast of it-, horn at 8, 12, 1, and 5; what tho sick or well neighbours think does not trouble the r-ngirieer. The most judicious example is the steam laundry attached to the hospital. This has to go through the fareo of calling its hands to and from labour four times a duy. In most modern towns there is in the -vicinity of hqspjrals, what is called a 'quiet /one,' within which it is, a misdemeanor to make any kind of noise. It would be interesting to know what they would think of a fcteam whistle from Hie iiiblitulion itself. Possibly this whistling is good for patients, but if it is purt of the curative treatment, tho cilrious public should be given some explanation. In many American cities— New York, for example— this screeching of ".irons and whistles ib totally prohibited. Why i 3i 3 the &illy old custom suffered to linger on in New' Zealand cities and towns?"