The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-10-15 00:00:00

THE ALLEGED NUISANCE IN LOWER HIGH

STREET.

To the Editor of the " Oloorrer:'

Stu,—Having seen a couple of letters which appeared
in your two last issues, signed respectively" • Sufferer"
and "Pedestrian," complaining of an alleged nuisance
in Lower High-street, I beg to forward you a few lines
on the same subject. " A Sufferer" commences his
effusion by asking if we have a Nuisance Inspector, and
follows this up by sneeringly insinuating that if we have
one that individual's nasal organ must have lost its func-
tions, or he would surely do something to get rid of the
obnoxious smell which your correspondent asserts poi3oos
the atmosphere of Lower High-street. Your correspon-
dent, "Pedestrian," follows in the same strain, declaring
that the stench arising from some works at the bottom
of the town is perfectly unbearable, and that whilst he
was sitting in a confined room belonging to the Church
of England Association at the top of Lower High•street,
he could still smell it.
_

Now, Sir, I consider that your correspondents belong
to that class of persons who make "Much ado about no.
thing." They are something like that coxcomb lord
whom Hotspur, in Shakespeare's play Henry IV..
contemptuously describes as calling 'The soldieta rude
unmannerly knaves, for bringing an unhandsome come
'twixt the wand end his nobility.- What are the real
facts of the case. I grant that at times a slightly dis
greeable odour does arise from the place hinted at by
your correspondent, but I beard a woman declare wh
hoed only 30 yarda from the place indicated that it war
nothing like so powerful or obnoxious as that emitted
from an ordinary butcher's slaughter-house ; and she also
assured me that she had never been so healthy in her
late as she had been since sbe had resided in that locality.
Several gentlemen and tradesmen also who live in the
immediate vicinity declare that there is no nuisance
worth making a fuss about; and one gentleman, in par
ticular, whose works adjoins those from which the •fieged
nuiaance emanates, states that the smell is not oue whit
more obnoxious than that arising from men who barn
been perspiring freely at their work, wheu they come
into his office to be paid. I al.o see from a report of a
recent Commissioners' meeting that appeared ie Sour
paper, that Mr. Perkins, a Commissioner who resides tu
the immediate vicinity of the alleged nuisance, stated
that he never smelt anything disagreeable issuing from
the aforesaid works. I could cite many other proofs
that this nuisance exists more in the brains of your cor-
respondents than in fact.
Your correspondent," Pedestrian," further alleges that
the stench is injnring the Lealth of the inhabitants of
that part of the town. Now, I think, the best proof of
the fallacy of this assertion will be found in your report
of the last Commissioners' rae etioe, at which the Clerk,
in giving the mortality returns, which are culled from Um
books of Dr. Campbell, who resides in Lower Highatreet
aaserted that the health of the town was in the most sat.
isfactory state. This being the case, how is it possible
that the nuisance eau be so injurious to health, as your
correspondents would have us to believe? Do your cor-
respondents wish to drive trade from the town which has
already been for years suffering from the want of it If
we are to be so over fastidious as all this comes to, there
is sesreely a trade or manufacture of any description
which will be permitted to be exercised withiu the pre-
cincts of the town on account of some disagreeable thing
or other. Are they so exceedingly particular in Birming-
ham, and other large towns, where one would think they
could afford to be more independent than we can" Cer-
tainly not; for in the very centre of Birmingham, and
at the Lack of one of its most public thoroughfares, viz.,
Boll•street, there is • chemical drug manufactory from
which at frequent intervals stenches arise that are per-
fectly overpowerine, and adjoining this is a large fish
curer 's establieloneut, where the curing of herrings and
other tish is constantly going on, end I don't think it is
necessary for me to describe what sort of on odour is
continually emitted from this establishment. In like
manner in Wolverhampton, Mender, Weaver and Co.,
have large chemical drug manufactory directly at the
back of High Green, from which thg same overpowering
smell is frequently arising. Yet, enough each of these
nuisances has meted for years, yet we do not find that
the inhabitants of these towne try to get them removed.
No, they value trade too much, and prefer to put up with
a little inconvenience to permanently injaring the town.
and this, dodbtless, is the secret of their thriving pros.
peril!.
If your correspondents find this imaginary evil—and
I have heard it asserted that imaginary ones have often
a greater effect on some minds than genuine disasters
would have on others—there is an alternative for them
by which they can get rid of the nuisance without injar.
ing the trade of the town, or harming a gentleman whn
pnt up those works with the full consent of the Commis.
sioners, who were thoroughly aware of the kind of man•
ufacture that was about to be carried on in them—they
can remove to another part of the town, or, if they pre•
fur it, leave it altogether. I dare say Stourbridge would
recover from such a catastrophe; for persons who have
no more public spirit than your correspondents evince
are better out of the town than in it.
Hoping that you will insert the foregoing in the next
issue of your valuable paper,
1 m, Sir, yours truly,
NEZ.
Stourbridge, Oct. 12,1870.

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