Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-01
A MODEL HOUSE.

DIR. Hogg, of Bedford Park, Cheswiok,
England, has built himself house in Queen
Anne style, for which Bedford Park Is re-
nowned, where no window can open, and
where there is no fireplace except in the
kitchen. Underneath the hall q large
passage is used as the intaker of fresh air.
Here it can be cooled in summer by ice or
water spray, while in winter it ia warmed
by hot steam-pipes, which are economically
heated by a small coke stove The air then
passes up into the hall, from which it is
only separated by an iron trellis-work, and
travels into every room of the house by
apertures made in the skirtings and cor.
nices. In the ceiling of each room there
are one or two openings and exhaust shafts
leading to the foul-air chamber in the roof
of the house. To produce the exhaust
suction, q large shaft runs from the foul
air chamber to the back of the kitchen fire,
where the heat of the boiler and the fire
suffice to attract tine air. From the back
of the kitchen fire, in the basement Of the
house, the air again travels up. A sqaure
brick shaft or chimney conveys it through
the roof and into the open air. In the
center of this shaft is a circular metallic
tiue which carries away the smoke of the
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less heated, stimulates the current Of air.
A comparison of the minimum velocity at
which the air moves forward in the extract
ing fues two hundred feet per minute)
with the cubic contents of the house, shows
that the atmosphere is entirely changed
throughout the dwelling once in every
twenty minutes. This result is OBJ
tanned impercephbly-ths is, without the
slightest draught. Every part of the house
being equally warm, all danger OF catching
cold from draughty corridors, chilly bed or
bath rooms, is obviated A nurse and three
children sleep IN one room measuring four
tsen feet square by ten feet high One Of
the children used 20 suffer from defective
circulation, cold fingers, chilblains, blue
ness of the eNtremines, etc, but since he
has lived in the new house ne has expert
enced no such Inconvenience. Finally, as
there are no fires in the rooms, as the
heavier particles of dust are precipitated
in the intake chamber before the air enters
the house, two servants can do the entire
domestic work where three were formerly
necessary, and a much higher degree of
cleanliness is maintained. In coal the cost
has been reduced by one.third, though the
entire house is now warmed instead of a
few rooms. The experiment, it will be
seen, has been tested in more senses than
one, and has proved a success From a
domestic point of view, it is economical.
From medical point OF view, it is hardly
necessary to dwell on the advantages Of a
perfectly even temperature throughout the
whole house, thus rendering it no longer
necessary to contne patient to one room.
This temperature can be increased or
lessened at will at sll seasons, the air is
comparatively free from dust particles, and
its renewal can be insured with mathemati.
Cal, precision, without mourning the risk of
those sudden draughts and transitions in
volved by the opening of doors and win.
dows-G Lapcet