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70 more Than one third Of The entire life, II /
certainly important under what hygienie influ
, snees this be spent The hardy disposition
which the IndiGn possesses, enables him 4
sleep under rude tent. upon The ground. 4
few hardy hunters. Injured from boyhood {,
exposures Of ell kinds. are enabled to sleep Of
ten in the open air, or with slight covering, up
on The ground. But il requires an early liz
OF such exposure to inure one TO it, Many o
the Mexican VOlunteers-rOugh as may o
them Wsre-On the dry coil Of Mexico slept
as they thought, with iupunity; but the stats.
tics show that dysenteries and ievers killed NOR,
than the Mexicans. Witness the disease and
mortality among our California adVsn:urers
who bOasted in every letter oftbe beautifu
climate, pure air, etc., which enabled them :,
sleep without catching cold, as they we're con
IS.raicsd. upon The bare ground. subsequsn
letters Invariably told of dysentsries. intermit
tent, and othsr feTsu. Hfurther instances arr
necessary, look at the f:'snch and English al
lied army in Turkey-ibe best appointed army
sVer equipped, yet decimsted By diceass pro-
dueed by exposures, almost before 3 siHgle
man had been slain by the opposing enemy
Educated in the civilization Of the day, we can
not sleep on the ground.
From the chilly dampness of subterranean
apartments We canno. sleep in cellars or base
ments with safety. In the winter season,
when the ground without is frozen, they are
less moist. and if fires are kept up, the air is so
much dried &c to render these apartments COM
PaFatively healthy. But the best sleeping a.
Partments are in the upper stories of the
house.
The size Of room is of little Importance il
ventilated properly, and this is to Re in pro-
proportion to its capacity-the smaller the
room the better II should be capable of being
aerated. Mathematics will tell this. In each
inhalation the lungs contain 90 cubic inches of
air, OF 2668 cubic inches are breathed in "a
hours. But it should be remembered that in
che air once breathed, the oxygen or the nutri-
tive portion, is not nearly consumed but one
fifth to ne-third only is used. The ventilation
should therefore be sufficient to supply this
loss. In an ordinary sized room, with the
chimney open and no double windows to keep
out the air, there is little to be feared from i'm.
perfect ventilation when one or two onlv oocu.
py it.
By far the worst portion Of the sleeping a.
partment is that devoted TO the 'trundle bed
and its dear contents Children require bet
tel air than adults, and near the floor is the
worst place in the room, especially il the room
be cold one. The movements of the air are
always felt at the bottom; and this 'draught,'
as it is called, is not only unpleasant but dele
teriOus. Besides this, the carbonic acid gas,
more or less Of which is expelled at each expi-
ration, is heavier than the ordinary air, and
falls to the bottom as soon as cold. Was there
nothing but this gas to breathe, life would be
destroyed. In warmed and lighted rooms, the
portion Immediately under the ceiling is car
bonic acid gas the emanations from the lungs,
the air deprived of its oxygen by the burning
lights, rise to the ceiling from the heat they
cOntain-when cooled they fall again. s. Girls.
cons book on Ventilation published by Red
field, will give the whole theory Of ventilation.
The bed should therefore be between the
floor and ceiling. and not on the floor. Ifhung
with curtains they should be open at the top,
for the air may effectually be retained within
these fabric walls, and thus constitute small
apartment. although the bed be in a room of
partial size. The beds in all the hospitals of
Paris are curtained, but there is nothing at
the top, between them and the ceiling.
The habit which many children have of COW
ering their heads with the clothes is very pre-.
judicial to health: They are breathing the
same air contained under the clothes over and
over again--ObViOusly injurious.
Some run away with the idea that cold air
il purer than warm air, and while they spend
a large sum of money to warm their houses,
they wanIOnly waste the heat produced by O.
pening the windows. If the house or room is
warmed by the passage of air from the cut
door, over hot iron surface, as in furnace,
that air is as pure as it was before it entered,
provided that the furnace be proper one
They neither allow the smoke nor gas
to escape, nor Is the surface ever rsised TO O.
heat. When stove or furnace becomes red
hot, The air is not only heated. but its oxygen
Is burnt out Of it, and tits thus deprived of its
most valuable quality. Ifthisis the case. open
the windows and let in pure air.
Il is not unhealthy to sleep in a warm room,
provided the clothes on the bed be adapted pro-
pOrtiOnally. Indeed, it is healthier for young
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