The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-01-06
Cold ncd.Ronms.

1t IS always 8 matter Of great moment
70 maintain IN equitable temperature n
Che bed -rooza. Z bedroom the air OF
which Is subject to groat and frequent
and rapid changes Of Betnporu.JJrs Is
always trap f7v danger. 70 persons
Who Sre "a tao primo e lie, aud who aFe
in robust hoslta. this danger Is less pro-
nouRce3. bat - tha yoNng and the fee
tlc Il il "a most FoUiuuB danger Il is
specially dangerous 10 Eged people to
Siecp ~ . room that is easily lowered In
wnrnih. " hen the great waves Of cold
come Ia tbs Nintcr season, old people
begin 10 dr,~p oG Nita e rapidly that is
perfectly Startling. we take MP the LIT
OF 6aaths during these seasons, and the
most marked Of facts is .iba number q
deceased aged persons it il Ike IN
epidemic Of death by Oil age. The pub
lie maud accepts this record as indicative
Of a general change II external condl-
tons, and of 2 mortality, therefore, thai
Is necessary IS a result e Shat change.
: would not myself dispute that there Is
line Of truth and soHud common sense
and common observation IN this view,
but when we descend from the general
TO the particular va Gnd that much e
tine mortality seeu w such excess RmO-g
the aged Is in3Ccea by mistakes on the
subject Ct warmth IN the bedroom.
The fatal oycnt comes sbOUt somewhat
in this way. The room IN which the or
feehied person hiss been sitting before
going e bed hes been warmed probably
up 10 summer heat; 3 light meal hss Hcel,
taken before retiring 70 rest, aud then Tn.
bedroom Is entered The bedroom Pr
chance has no fire IN it, or. II q &c be
Lighted, provision Is not made To Keep ;t
aliCht for more than an Icur or two.
The result is that IN the carly
part of The morning. rom three 20
four o'clock, when fac temperature OF
the cir III al parts Il lowest, fhe glow
from tho fire or stov which should ws.TT2
tho room has ce2sed, aDd the room Is
colo to an extce-ne degree. In country
houses tho yyater viii often be fouutl
frozen in Ire hand basins or evqers under
these cor litiOns.
Meanwhile, the sleeper lies unconscious
/ OF tie great change which Is taking
! pl1oe IN the air around him. Slowly and
/ surely there is a decline of tempera-
4 ture to the oxtent, it may be Of thirty OF
/ forty degrees on the Fahrenheit scale:
! and though Es may be fairly covered
/ with bed-clOthes, he Is receiving into his
| lungs this cold air, by which the circula-
ton through the lungs is materially
modified.
The condition Of the body itself is ut
/ this time unfaVornblo for meeting any
| emergency. In the period between mid
/ night and six n the morning the animal
vital processes are at their lowest ebb.
/ It is In these times that these who are en-
| feebled from any cause most frequently
/ die Physicians often consider these
( hours as critical, and foreyarn enxiopa
friends in respect 70 them. From time
ilnmemoriaI those who have been &C
custoned 70 wait and tend on the sioh
have noted these hours most anxioUsly,
so that they have been called by ono %
our old writer's {" the hours Of fate" Il
this space of time the influence Of the
life-gigiug sun has been longest with
drawn from man, and the hearts that are
even the strongest beat then with sab
dued tone. Sleep is heaviest, and dealt
is nearest to us all, in " the hours O
fate "
The safest method is to have the air @
the room short time before It 10 Occu
pied, brought up 70 a uniform toTnpera
ture OF sixty 80 ty-ive degrees FahTen
heit Il should never fail f7o degrees
below sixty degrees, and never rise above
sixty-fiye degrees under ordinary cTcUn
stances. In cases where the occupant o
the room is extremely eDfeebled 1t may
be necessary TO raise the temperature t
n higher point.
a mistake is sometimes made in OBJ
serving the temperature. The reading
Of the thermometer is taken in one par
of the room only, perhaps in tho warm
est part-that is to say, over the fire
place or from the mnntei-shelf This i.
not fair observation, for room at tina
part may be very warm, while it is very
} cold in other parts The temperature
should, properly, be taken ut the bed't
head, about two feet above the pillow
and that is the best position in which Il
keep the thermometer with which every
bedroom ought to DE furnished. "A
ordinary Thermometer sufTices As = gen
eral index. but a registering instrument
is most advantageous when pnrticu)a-
care Is demanded il observation. liar
Zer's We5hty.