CITY NOISES
Sir. —"Let l T s Get to Work!" says "O Tempora () Mores." It is about time. Dr. Foster Kennedy has just concluded a series of experiments on trephined patients at the Bellcvuc Hospital, New York, and lias demonstrated that noise resulting from the explosion of a paper bag raised the brain-pressure to four times ibe normal for seven seconds, and that .'3O seconds elapsed before the pressure returned to normal. In the New York State Journal of Medicine, the doctor in question states that the undoubted effect of constant noise is "disturbance of the circulatory system and an increase in the degenerative processes in the heart and arteries." Further, in describing the causes of the degenerative diseases now rampant in the civilised countries of the world, Lord Horder mentions noise—"needless, stupid, provocative, ill-man-nered, selfish noise!" It, therefore, appears that in the national campaign now being conducted for the prevention of ill-health, noise must have attention and be given its quietus! Sanguine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22629, 18 January 1937, Page 13
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163CITY NOISES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22629, 18 January 1937, Page 13
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