Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1871-11-04


want Of the human being, and it is
also the last. At every pulsaiien during
life we need this life sustaining ele>
ment. Yet one would suppose by the
bad ventilation of houses, street ears,
churches and ecture-rooms, that man
was made to live without air-at least
that it was matter of Indifference
whether he had much or little, or
whether it was good Or bad. We read
often in the papers of the death of per
| sons from suffocation in wells, mines, or
in rooms warmed by charcoal burnt 10
an open vessel, or Of sutfocation by es-
Gaping gas, and we are startled, won
derins why people will be so careless
yet thousands of people die by inches,
or only half live, iu consequence of the
! impurity of the air which they breathe
| 1t one is shut up in small room with
out any admission Of fresh air, the air
i contained in the room soon becomes
! impure by having been breathed over
and over, aud very great lassitude or
/ depression of life and spirits is the
consequence. People live in tenement
houses in New York, six or seven
stories high, one room above another,
some having seventy five families in a
house. and each family containing from
five to eight persons with no appliance
for ventilating the whole building; the
inhabitants being ignorant of the neccs-
sity for ventlating their own rooms
respectively is it wonder th1t such
places show heavy bills Of mortality? J?
One looks pltyingly at the poor. pale.
Ianguid little slips of girls and boys, and
watches the weary, haf dead infants
who are balancing between life and
death--more frequently stopping on
the death side, because more than halt
of the time during the day and night
they are thus pent up and half stuffed
for the want of pure AIR
The blood requires to be revitaliEed
constantly withln the lungs by comm.
in contact with atmospheric air In
deed, that is the whole office of the
lungs, to aerate or rcvitalize the blood
(Which is there met BY the atmos>
| pHETtC All j. anu ~ AAA
veinous blood To bright scarlet artcrial
blood, thus preparing 1t to carry life TO
every part and tissue of the system. In
the lungs the blood loses many of its
impurities, and takes on the life giving
oxygen from the air aud in proper ion
as the air is abundant and pure which
we breathe. in that proportion we have
the glow Of health and the enthusiasm
uf living which comes from we'll vital
lied blond. People who live in the
cities. especially those of intelligence
and culture, study the subject of vcnti-
lation, and do more to promote it than
people in the country. Houses that are
built with low ceilings, nnd are some
tunes located near to mIasmatic swamps
are not as hcalthful residences, though
located in the country, as most OF the
better kind of residences ia the city
where the ceilings are high, aod the
windows permitted to come down from
the top. In nine>tenths Of the farm
houses, and probably in more than bali
the houses in villages, the windows are
not arranged so as to be pulled down
from the top; aud millions of people in
this country sleep in .mal rooms with
out any effort at ventilation. During
the day. their houses IN warm weather
are more or less open, and the people
circulate freely in the open air; but
their sleeping apartments are exccra
BILE. ON account of having no ventilation.
People bury themselves in feather beds
and shut their bedroom doors, aud
sometimes they will raise the bottom OF
The window an inch. but not much
; more, lest cat should get TO- They
are afraid of the draft. and keep it out,
aud they look and feel depressed aud
: nnrelreshed in tho morning.
} Air Is abundant and cheap. II does
not need to c invited 10 if We make
; place for it it will rush in of itself
aud when the air is made foul by being
breathcd over and over again. it will
hurry out, because lighter, aud the
outer air wi rush in aud take its place,
because heavier. Air is the most need
full, it is the most abundant, aud it j,
the cheapest of all good things. Lee
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