Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-08-03


required to absorb and render innocuous
organic exhalations from the lungs, skin,
and clothing of the irividuals occupying
room; these exhalations cause the foul
odor of an ill-ventilated room, and are
far more injurious, as well as more disa-
gresable, than the carbonic acid 1t
is stated that ten perc ent. Of carbonic
acid mechanically mixed with common
air is not so injurious as two pei cent. in
air vitiated by respiration and the body's
.exhalatiors. The exchange of oxygen
and carbonic acid in respiration does not
contain the whole, or even considerable
portion, of the science of ventilation the
foulest air of railroad car, or a crowded
hall in winter, is deficient in oxygen to
degree which may be. made up by few
extra inspirations; the amount of carbon
c acid in such places is very much less
than what workmen in soda-water factories.
breathe with impunity. The great source
of impurity is the organic matter rejected
by the lungs and skin; and to detect this
we have an unerring guide in the sense of
smell; whenever, therefore, we put our
noses into room, and our sense Of smell
tells us of the unmistakeable organic i'm
purity, we must retreat at once; if we
enter, our guide soon deserts us, and we
breathe the poisoned air without apparent
harm; miiarity with vice soon blunts
the moral perception, so remaining short
time in foul air blunts our sense of smell,
and we unconsciously, perhaps de6antly,
expose to the germs CT various diseases
which are always floating in the air,
ready to become vitalizcd when they find
a proper indus in the human body. So
thoroughly were the ancient lawgivers
imbued with the truth of this, that clean
illness of the body was made a part Of
their religion; we have also an adage,
whose truth we can appreciate from the
above point of view, viz, that "cleanli-
ness is next to godiness''; with the lights
of modern hygiene we may go farther
than this, and say that bodily filth is in
compatible, not only with the sound health,
but with the morality and religion OF a
community.
The prevalent modes of warming our
houses by furnaces and stoves, for conve-
nience and economy, do not favor free
circulation of air, and should not be used
in tight apartments. In our cold climate,
it is difficult TO solve the combined prob
leIs of warmth aud ventilation The
open Fireplace is the great natural ventil-
ator Of room; and in our best houses,
in addition to the registers for heated and
pure air, we ought to find fire upon the
hearth for the purposes of ventilation; /;
the expenses of the extra fire will be
more than compensated by dimunition of
the doctors bills, and what is of far
greater Importance, by the increased
health and happiness of the household.
The practice of many people of keep
ing up sufficient fire to allow the win
dows to be kept open, is an excellent way
to secure plenty of fresh air; when this
would be too expensive, an augur-hoe
for every member Of the family in the
sash of the most crowded rooms, is very
good substitute. 1t must also be remem-
bered that lamps, gas.burn6rs, and what
ever il in a state Of combustion in a room,
are consuming oxygen and evolving car
bonic acid, and to that extent using up
the air we require for the publication Of
our blood it is estimated that an Ordina-
ry gas burner consumes as much oxygen
as healthy adult.
The amount of air we introduce must,
therefore, be ample for all these addition
al consumers in the household. 4-f
N SUNSHINE. ..nf
Sunshine is Of no less Importance than
pure air. DR.. Bowditch's statistical ta-
bles 90 to show the intimate relation be-
tween the occurrence Of consumption and
its allied diseases, not only in years where
there have been an unusual number Of
cloudy days, but in places naturally, and
in houses designedly, deprived of the free
access Of the suns rays. m.N
Some time ago this fact was signally
illustrated by a district of Paris, where
the people were pallid and filthy from the
absence Of sunlight in their, dwellings; !;
the government interiered, and shut up
the places. H
There are not few tenement-houses
in all our large cities where such a pro-
cedure would throw light not only upon
moral and physical nastiness, but upon the
causes Of disease and death among tho
poor foreign population swarmiDg and fes-
tering in our midst. II, ,-b u f5i
Let the SUNLIGHT into your houses, then,