Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-26
WHY SOME PEOPLE SUFFER FROM
 HEADACHE AND NAUSEA

1 of yentilation-The Destroying Element, l Impure Air Continually SappinG Our | Life Blood.
 The atmosphere we breathe has in its natural state a nearly uniform compost tion of oxygen, nitrogen, carbonic acid and wate:y vapor It IS conceded that in each inspiration four cubic inches is taken into the lungs. one-half of which disappears in the act of inspiration. This Ncopsinnption of oxygen is greater when the temperature is low than when it is high, and during digestion it is greater than when the stomach is empty.
 Riding in the s,eam and horse cars, we are compelled to breathe not only the air from peoples lungs. but the calculations from their skins and clothing. Fancy riding in the steam cars for a long dis tance ia winter time, with two large stoves heated almost red hot with an- thracite coal. in q space say of 15 feet wide and 10 feet high. This space will contain about eighty people, and is closely shut up. Every one knows the stove uses up oxygen with great rapidity, and what is left is breathed over and over again by the people, who are giving out from their lungs constantly d gas ut terly unfit to be breathed.
 Is it any wonder headache and nausea steal over them? They must either sit in a draught CT endure the poison, as the ventilators are rot enough to carry off the foul air.
 IN THE SCHOOL HOUSE. 1 Nicit cp,on school ho,cac oft o xx-allr in the fresh air and the odor is something disgusting. These unpleasant sensations come from want of greater ventilation. Here again the air Is vitiated by the breaths, clothing: many of the pupils scarcely know the luxury of d good bath and plenty of clean unlerclothing. Now, can the air be anything but bad under such circumstances? If the windows are opened long the teacher and children take cold, and some are afraid and think they cannot stand the smallest breath of | fresh air.
 1 X schoolroom 30 feet square and feet high contains T,200 feet of cubic air. This room will seat sixty pupils. Allow ing ten cubic feet of air to each pupil per minute all the air in the room will be viIiatcd in twelve minutes. Now, granting that every means is used re- garding ventilation, and q goodly supply of soap and water to scrub the floors in- stead of sweeping. X recess of five min- utes ought to be given every hour, so that the children could move about, have the windows and doors wide open, and let them breathe in freely the pure air of nature, to repair their mental and phy- sical condition.
 Effects are proportioned to causes, and if an atmosphere filled with 5 per cent. of carbonic acid will produce death ill a few minutes, what must be the effect of breathing for ten, twenty or forty years the much smaller proportion which must be present in every inhabited room where there is not a constant incoming and out going of air? Itmust and does lower the standard of health and shorten our lives. Let a person who is in good health with a sound nasal organ, take a brisk walk in the open air, then come at once into the inhabited room, and if there is any unpleasant odor the air of that room is hurtful.
 How many dwellings,, sitting rooms or bedrooms would pass such an ordeal in the early morning after being occupied all night?
 A LITTLE GOOD ADVICE.
 Bad air being heavy always sinks to the floor, and to be got rid of must be drawn from the floor, either by open fire places or some means of ventilation. A room 10 by 12 by 12 contains l ,440 cubic feet of air, thoavailable oxygen of which Is used up by one person in half an hour. What to breathe then becomes the great question, especially for persons unac- quainted with the only way of produc- ing good health and long life. Breath is our life-more to us than food. Breathe pure fresh air day and night. You can not get too much of it. Fresh air is the one mighty disinfectant. It certainly is its own purifier; nothing can take the place of puIo ventilation.
 We suffer most in winter for want of l ventilation; tho outside cold makes us close all the apertures in the rooms, while in summer the heat makes us open all the doors and windows. I think it preferable from my standpoint to have less heat in the rooms, to air them every two hours, to get rid of the furnace . gases, and in the evenings to get away with the deadly carbon from our gas jets. Let cleanliness be the watchwOrd : in every home, from attic to cellar. Keep plenty of disinfectants around the washbowls and water closets. In damp cellars keep charcoal always. It is sim- pie and cheap. Let in the blessed sum- , light everywhere you can. Never mind the fading of furniture or carpets; bet
 ter than that our lives and those of our children be the forfeit
 . Sunshine not only gladdens our hearts, but it steals into the corners and makes the surroundings pure. Where sunshine enters, every room will be healthy. Get the musty odor out of your offices, r stores, every place of business. Better l stand cold air than breathe slow death. Live in open air all you can. Take a brisk walk countrywards every day. Go to the hill tops, but remember ''God . breathed into your nostrils the breath of ' SfN IL,