The New International Encyclopædia/Smethwick

SMETHWICK, smĕᴛʜ′ik. A municipal borough in Staffordshire, England, three miles northwest of Birmingham (Map: England. E 4). It is an important manufacturing centre with iron, machine, glass, chemical, and other works. The municipality owns gas and electric lighting plants, and garden allotments, and maintains a free library and reading rooms, park, public baths, and an isolation hospital. Population, in 1891, 36.100; in 1901. 54.560.