title: Tenuous silence : urban anxieties and the mitigation of noise in Singapore, 1870 - 1939
abstract: The Straits Settlements were made up of the crown colonies of Singapore, Malacca, and Penang in 1867. The Legislative Council (hereby abbreviated LegCo) was a law-making body of elected official and non-official members deliberating over legislative revisions with the Executive Council that applied to all three Settlements. With Singapore being the official headquarters of the Strait Settlements colonial administration,