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access, there was not much fault to be found. A good
result therefore was obtained quicker than if there had
been no preliminary opposition.
No. 13, King's Place* was again before the magistrate;
the Order of the Court not having been obeyed, the
magistrate ordered the house to be closed until the
necessary sanitary works of drainage, &c., had been
properly carried out.
Nuisance from Garages and Motor Cars.
The Public Health Committee will shortly have to
consider the important question of how to deal with the
serious complaints of nuisance incidental to the Motor Car
industry. There are several garages in the district in which
cars are stored, charged with petrol, cleaned, repaired, and
the engines started to see that each cylinder beats in
proper time and that all is in order; during this operation,
more especially if the crank chamber is full of oil, or if the
engine is dirty, there is considerable smell, and more or less
noise.
In one case the occupiers of adjoining premises have
laid a formal complaint by petition, and there is not the
slightest doubt that there is nuisance—nuisance that is
inseparable from the industry, and one difficult to deal with
without seriously interfering with a growing and important
trade.
It is the writer's opinion that all garages of the kind
should have a special shed or room in which to start the
engines; any architect could design by means of double
walls a practically noise-proof shed ; there would also have
to be a flue with good draught carrying the waste gases
away to the height of the highest chimneys in the neighbourhood.
This means a considerable expenditure of money, but
when any person establishes a new, noisy, and intermittently
offensive business in densely populous localities,
he must either spend money in minimising any nuisance
incidental to the business, or run the risk of having his
business entirely prohibited.
♦Erroneously described in last month's Chronicles as King Street.