London noises, disturbing sleep / by C.J.B. Aldis.

  • Charles James Berridge Aldis
Date:
1864
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: London noises, disturbing sleep / by C.J.B. Aldis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    rid of them.” The hint, perhaps, may not he lost on; speculative coachmen and grooms, whose masters’ stablest may happen to be conveniently situated for annoying; “ literary gentlemen ” in the neighbourhood. But in. another instance the sufferer was less complacent. The- fowls attached to some adjacent premises woke him up at; 2 o’clock in the morning, and he “ threatened to poison; them.” A case is mentioned—whether or not identicall with the last is scarcely clear—in which a gentleman kept; fowls and ducks in a covered verandah attached to his back; drawing-room window. The inventor of this ingenious? contrivance, however, got entangled in the meshes of the;! law. Through lack of the necessary cleanliness the fowls?' became a nuisance injurious to health. There is nothing.; like a sanitary law for walking into a man’s back drawing- room. The Medical Officer in this case, either took pro- ceedings or threatened to do so, and the verandah was- cleared of its noisy occupants. But cows as well as fowls are fatal to the public peace; Says Dr. Aldis :—“ A vestryman loudly complained to. “ me many months ago, and again the other day, of a “ cow and fowls being kept in a stable behind his house, “ which disturbed his sleep so much as to interfere w'ith “ his health.” Here, again, the ingenuity of the Medical Officer is set to work. The obnoxious animals emit nc effluvium injurious to health; but if the owner of the cow- would only take to selling milk, then the sanitary guardiar: of the parish could “help the complainant.” But we pre- $ sume the owner of the cow disdains to sell his lacteaa i! treasure, and the lowing of the cow continues unaffected by Act of Parliament. Nor is this an exceptional cased Dr. Aldis says:—“ There are many single cows so kept ix “ Belgravia, and they say that a lonely cow is much more t
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