ANTI-NOISE PLANS.
DOCTORS URGE LEGISLATION. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON, Feb. 19. A deputation of the Medical Council of the People's League of Health waited on Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, in December, and discussed the effect of noise on the health of the community. The league now urges on the Government the desirability of:— Zones of silence round hospitals and similar institutions. Prevention of the sale of any motorcycle not efficiently silenced. Limitation of speed of motor-lorries at night. . Limitation of weight of vehicle:: and goods carried by road. Enforcement of the use of pneumatic tyres on lorries. White lines across openings of side roads into main roads, with a 10-miles-an-hour limit there to abolish the necessity of hooting. Amendment of the Public Health Act of 1875 to include the nuisance of noise.
A Government inquiry into preventable noise in industry.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20218, 1 April 1929, Page 7
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