New-York tribune., 1868-04-23
VENTILATION.

tion and heating for the United states treasury
Department, has just published three lmpor'ans
lectures upon ventilation read by him in the Frank
lin Institute of Philadelphia, during the winter OK
1867 The first want Of every living being Is hesh
air. and unless the lungs are supplied with such air
constantly at the rate of from ten to thirty cnDlc
feet every minute perfect health cannot be preserved
Mr.. Leeds sets forth some PLAIN truths.
Thousands poisoned to death by their own
breath every year. But did you ever see physieans
certificate that gave y0n any such ideaf Why do
not doctors tell the living in such auape they
can understand, what killed their friends. SO they
in some Latin terms which fear n.any interpret to
mean some special dspensation of Providence instead
of the true causether utter disregard Of sthe laws
of their Creator" Again, Ii is not IN the external
atmosphere that we must look for the greatest i'm
purties but it is in our own houses that the blight
ing withering curse Of fonl air rs TO be fonnd. we
are thus led 70 the conclusion that our oen 6redth
'I II was singular fact that The Health of Towns
Commission in England, after examining various
houses and having left the scavengers 70 the last,
expecting to find rich harvest Of mortality among
them. were surprised to IND them mors .ralIny tnh
many of very clean OCCUPATIONS but which were con-
ductsd i'm houses instead of the open air. One would
not be surprised to that the chona,e's the SIN
gular race of beings who gropo amid tils nun ana
the darkness of Paris sewers were as healthy not
even more so, than the pent ot the oea
tifu clean, yet fright and hesh-wiherng factories
of New England. fs
Philadelphia the anthor declares to be one of the
healthiest cities in the United States and in proper
tion to the number Of its inhabitants he says lew
more healthy cities exist in the world Ihs.t seems,
is not owing especially to its more saubrous stua-
tion but because the houses are built more like
those of the country, SO that the air can sweep all
around them and sometimes through them"
The author considers plants to be very conduciye
to health in hying-room; morally and physically;
for plants absorb the carbOnlc ACID ana give OH
oxygen The following table gives the
CARB0NIC ACID IN HOUSES.
Here we have, dormtorles 81 do. SG ssyInm'
IL schSofSO 10: SUnla % o%oue aS parterrs IS do cell
ing s2S; stable, q do. ID; hospital Madrid,
SO do do, AZ; air of bedroom rising in the morn
Is railroad car "a; workshop Munich 10; full room
do 22 lecture room, S2 beer saloon 49; and worst
of all is well filled school ROOM 2 parts OF carbonlo
that has carried 30 many OF our friends TO their
graveeven in the prime Of life. .t.
very strong argument IL leyeled against inrnace,
heaters and the words attributed TO Prof. Iyndal
are used "In Sahara, where the soil is fire and the
wind is flame, the Refrigeration is painful to bear"
Mr.. Leeds adds the climax: And III many or our
furnaee-heated houses we have atmosphere very
similar in point of dryness to that OF Sahara, but
more impure" The ground Is taken that an open
fire is the bealthest kn3wn because that hre must
combustion and that air will be supplied by otner
air. hence, the air of q room heated by an open hre
can never become stagnant, and then the heat re-
sembes that of the sun more nearly than any other
means of artificial heating
Gas stoves are considered very prejndiclal TO
health. IheV small AL amount OF AT IO
support combustion that there is great probability OF
the occupants OF the snOtheI1ng to death for
want of fresh air. stove, if properly hsed creates
comfortable and wholesome atmosphere, and Is one
of the most economical means OF heating now known.
1t combines the three great essentials necessary Tor
comfort aud heath-tcarynih fresh air, and moisture
Yet neither the open fire the stove as desirable
they may be for small rooms. are not suitable for
large halls, where many people assemble. heating
by circulating warmed air. or by radiation Hom
steam-pipes in snch cases is more convenient. .
Steam is probably the most economical as well as ls
is both cleanly and convenient. Steam Is admirable
for it gives both .oar1Rfh and moisture Yet many
business men, either in ignorance or or careless ABOUT
the necessary supply of fresh AIR, as well as or heat
hurry themselves to their graves.
We sigh for the seaside or the mountains brow"
ms a change from the dull town. yet II we would
but raise our windows and let in the fresh air and
have it drive ont the foul air. and with it pes
Effected If we 60 to the country ond keep our win
dows and doors shut, might as well save the ex
pense of the journey and stay at home.
There was quite an account made o few years ago
of wonderful cure Of consumption. The patient
was removed from his bed to o cow-stable near at
hand and placed in close proximity to the cow; No
eonrss %ans pff'aRis ppf not 4
virps in the smell OF cow but Ine ar 81 Gown Gown
chamber Consumption is almost entirely the result
of breathing impure air. Drunkenness preyentDle
by the exclusive of cold water why is hot con-
sumption preVcutaDle Dy adequate suPPiioS VA P''0
Then as regards might air. Memo is cited; Nh
merons experiments the air IN Paris gave less car
bonic acid in the night than in the daytime" me
author adds his testimony. II have practced iOr
many years sleeping with my windows open every
night. Summer and Winter, allowing the unoostruct-
9G % e NOW y heS anS sensh Bean
Franklin is also quoted, III his letter to d. ineen-
haus physician to the Emperor OF Austrns oopo i'
the hydrophobia are of fresh water. myself hll
formerly this prejndicemthis efS0RAoS,d, as nO% srG
closed with extreme care every crevice in the rooms
inhabited. Experience has convinced me oI my
error now look upon fresh air as friend; even
sleep with an open window. am persuaded mat no
common air from without is so nnwholesone as the
air within close room that has been often preathcd
and not changed Moist air, too, which formerly
thought pernlcops gives me now no r omnsS 70
the ontsde of my skin can be equal 10 what IS APP
piled to and touches it within, my Whole Dony
benp full of moisture, and finding can lle
two hours in bath twice week covered with wafer
which certainly is much damper than any ar can De-
and this for years together wltnoht catchs CON- or
being in any other manner dIsordeTed by II, no
longer dread moisture either in air. or IN sheets ar
shirts: and find it of importance 10 the happiness
of life, the being freed from VAN ferIoI' especiy
of objects that we are every day exposed mGviiaDy
10 meet with" In the instruction or the Doard OF
Health for the prevention of cholera in lsS special
mention was made Of ventllatlon anu ens nno auSeo
apartments and cellars. should be thoroughly Neh-
atedD
Instead of avertng the cholera by ayoidce fresh
air M night the Va Phos
tanght ns inst the contrary, for while physicians adj
nit that they still unable 10 explain satisfactorily
the canse or remedy for this most mysterious disease
they almost universally believe it ia foulair poison,
and as vet they have found prevention than
pure air striking illustration is shown in the sud
den checking of the cholera at the workshop, BLACK
wells Island two years ago. The cholera was max
ing fearful ravageS among the women: They had the
smallest sleeping apartments, and their workrooms
change of diet dlsnfectants were used fifteen drops
of cas,cum with one ounce of whisky rs stlmuant,
was given at night. Fires were lighted to insure
thrown omen. and were never closed. day or night
The fresh air came rushing in from the river. In SIX
DAYS after the initiation of these simple hygenie
ra1v rod