Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Bring back the Inspector of Nuisances!
The language of modern local government lacks the poetry of late Victorian civic government. Take that hero of the street, the enforcement officer, who back in 1893 was known as an Inspector of Nuisances - everything from Smallpox to Cesspits to dodgy peas were classed as a nuisance and under the jurisdiction of the Inspector.
Have that offensive accumulation cleared at once, Sir!
Source: 1893 Tottenham Report of the Chief Medical Officer - Wellcome Library
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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I'm on the lookout for a post as Milestone Inspector - pensionable.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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Nothing about that modern nuisance, noise.
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Not just a modern nuisance, either: think of iron shod cart wheels (wasn't there a practice of spreading straw on the road outside to reduce the noise when a national figure - Arnold Bennett comes to mind - was on their deathbed); tram wheels on jointed track; steam trains (stand on Harringay station now and hear the roar - and feel the vibration - as a 160-ton steam locomotive passes a few feet from you).
But no, the Inspector of Nuisances was not supplied with an SPL meter - or any air pollution detector either, except his nose.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Nuisances (or problems) in more recent times became issues – and in a certain large software company a "focus area".
I miss 'Town Clerk' ... The Knackers Yard Regulations may still be in force but I'm not up to date with that.
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