Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-04
Do Not Sleep In = Cold Room.

Dr. Hall says that cold bed.chambers
always imperil the health and invite
fatal diseases. Robust persons may
safely sleep in atemperature of forty
or under, but the old, the infant, and
the trail, should never sleep in room
where the temperature is much under
fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
All know the danger Of going into 4
cold room from very warm room.
Very few rooms, churches, theatres and
the like,are ever warmer than seventy
degrees. If it is freezing out of doors,
it is thirty degrees-the difference be.
ing only forty degrees more. Persons
will be chilled by such change in ten
minutes, although they may be active
>ly walking. But to lie still in bed,
nothing to promote ciculation, and
breathe for hours All atmosphere of
forty or even fifty degrees, when the
lungs are always at ninety.eight, is too
great a change.
Many persons wake up it the morn
ing with Inflammation of the lungs
who went to bed well, and are surpris-
ed that this should be the case. The
cause may be found in a room, the
window of which has been foolishly
hoisted for ventilation. The water
cure journals of the country have done
an incalculable injury by the blind and
indiscriminate advice of hoisting the
window at night.
The rule should be everywhere, dur
ing that part of the year when fires are
kept burning, to avoid hoisting outside
windows. It is safe and better to leave
the chamber door open, as also the
fireplace then there is a draft up tho
chimney, while the room is not so
likely to become cold, if there is some
fire in the room all night, with a tenn
perature over fifty, than in pure afr
with temperature under forty. The
bad air may sickcn. but cannot kill
you the puro air Can and does kill
very ten.
Stable Ventilation.
The object of ventilation to any
apartment which constitutes the abo<le
of animals, is to procure constant
supply of fresh air to meet the demand
of the animal economy. The practice
which has long prevailed, as regards
ventilation, seems to deny its utility,
and to doubt the injury accompanying
it's neglect. So little do many people
see the necessity of ventilation, that
they cannot distinguish between the
warm air and the foul air of a stable,
and, consequently, if the admission of
fresh air is wanted to expel the foul,
they Immediately conclude it must be
cold, and do harm. Now, it is the prop.
er action of ventilation to let away all
and no more Of the warm air of a
stable than what is foul, and then, of
course, no more than the same quality
of fresh air can find its way into it.
A ready means of letting out the
foul air from stable is by number
of ventilators on the ridge of the roof;
and one means OF admitting fresh air
below. is by the windows when they
are open; but when they are shut,
other means must be applied. AS doors
and windows are usually situated in
farm-stables, the fresh air should not
be allowed to enter by them through
the night; so they should not be left
open, for fresh air coming directly
from the doors or windows. upon a
horse must strike Lis body and limbs
forcibly, and do him more harm than
good. The fresh air should come in
on level with the horses nostrils,
and an opening above his head seems
the most suitable place for foul air to
find its way out. <