The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1895-08-07
BEST fiooR 10 LIVE ON.
The Second Said to BE tho One Most Fa
vOrable to Health.

BEST FLOOR 10 LIVE ON.
The Second Said to BE tho One Most Fa-
vorable to Health.
NJ. Korosi, the Hungarian hygien-
ist, has lately investigated the effects
of living in cellars, ground floors
and upper floors Upon the duration
Of life. He found that the jewellers
of cellars lived to about 80 years and
II months, those on the ground
floor to 43 years and 3 months, those
on the first and second floors lived
to Al years and 2 months, while
those on the third and fourth floors
lived only to AZ years.
All things being otherwise equal,
the observations of Nj. Korosi may
be accepted rs showing the different
effects upon longevity by the differ
emily selected planes of residence.
The air of cellars or Easements is
never healthy, nor can such locali-
ties be ventilated except at consider
able expense. This also implies
ground air and ground moisture con-
Examinations arising from the inabili-
ty to remove the additional contain
nation coming from tho animal ex-
halations of the persons living there,
along with the heavier ground air
from the street and yard that of ne.
cessity pours down into such spaces.
Those living on the first and second
floors seem to enjoy the longest lease
of life, this, as might be expected,
from the greater freedom that the
air of those floors enjoys from foul
gases, microbes and germs, animal
emanations and from street dust.
Much here depends, however, upon
the character of the stairs. A steep,
hard stairs tends to shorten tho dura-
ton of life, while an easy, low step
stairs, broken by easy landings at
every eight or ten steps, will length
en- its duration. The spiral stairs,
winding screwlike up in q narrow
cylindrical space, are life shortenors.
These stairs save space and de-
stroy life and are quite common in
many parts of Europe: and where
one has to climb them to tho third
floor the exertion is slowly but sure.
ly telling. The effects of stair climb.
ing are visible in the two years less
life enjoyed by the inhabitants OF
tho upper floors.
These observations tally with
those of Strassmann of Berlin, with
the exception that in Berlin the base
ments give less mortality than the
immediate street floor, which speaks
we'll for tho humanity of the Berlin
microbe. In Berlin the Easements
are occupied by well to do class,
whereas in Budapest, the point OBJ
served by M. Korosi, the Easements
are occupied by the very poorest
w should not neglect to observe
that those who can afford a first OF
second floor fat are those who, as 6
rule, are better clothed, better fec
and capable of surrounding them
selves with better hygienic condi
tons than tho poorer of either tht
easements or of the upper floors.
The dwellers of the first two floor.
are, besides, persons better off in thu
world and not as likely to suffer any
physical i'll effects due to occupation
as their less fortunate fellow NOR
tails on the other floors. although WI
cannot overlook the fact that thes,
better favored ones probably d.
moro worrying, and that they ar
ant to suffer more from diseases O.
tho kidneys and of the ciroulatory
system that arise from worry ant
anxiety. These favored ones would
also be more likely to fall victims K
acute brain or nervous affections
than the others. So that were w
to people tho first and second floor
with the less worrying and less per
picked but poorer class the length
of life of these would probably g
far in excess of the "A years and
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