MOTOR-CAR NUISANCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 932, 27 September 1910, Page 5

MOTOR-CAR NUISANCE.

VILLAGERS' LIVES SPOILED.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyriplit

London, September 23. , The Queen has expressed sympathy with a petition from ton thousand two hundrod cottago women of Great Britain beseeching relief from motor-cars, which they say have made their lives a misary. Their children are always in danger, things in the cottages. are ruined by the dust, and the rest of the petitioners and their families is spoiled. : It is suggested that motors 'should b» compelled to travel 6lowly through villages, but the petition points out; "We are only, poor people, and the majority of tha persons using motor-cars will not account to us, We appeal to your Ma> jesty to us® your great infiuenoe."

Dr. iVemantle. the medical officer of health for > Hertfordshire,- in his annual report last year, oalled attention to serious dangers to health which may result from the road dust occasioned in large clouds by motor-cars. ""It is well known," ho observed, "that stonecutters and those working in other dusty, trades are peculiarly liable to stonecutters' phthisis' and 'silicosis.' Unless the dust be prevented by oil or water SO must dust , on the roads in lesser degree have a definite injurious effect on the lungs. . ■ He urged upon .the Sanitary Committee of the county that on behalf of the public health supervision must be directed to . this aerial distribution of dust by motoi>oar& as one of the factors of iruisanoe. just^as prevention is being applied to ; thG other factors«-»noise, 6mell, and danger..; One measure by which this prevention might be obtained was, he suggested, by shape of the*undorbody of