Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-10-21

and mechanically prevent the free
entrance of air. It is positively exhil-
arating to see the effect of the re-
moval of these growths-the opening
OF the draught fue The pale. feeble,
stupid looking, lackadaisical little IN
valid promptly becomes the bright
eyed, rosy-cheeked, hilarious, romp-
ing boy and when night comes ceases
to be a contortionist and sleeps like
the baby he If. Now il makes no diff
ference whether the supply of oxy-
gen is reduced by positive mechaii-
lcal obstruction to the inflow of air,
as in the above case, or by robbing
the air, that freely enters the lungs,
by breathing it over and over again.
And this latter is what I am partic-
ularly aiming at. While, doubtless.
in many of our sleeping apartments,
such want of ventilation obtains as
to produce this effect, it is chiefly in
our school-houses that we find it.
When your child comes home from
school pale and istless, perhaps com
planning of dull headache with no
appetite and no eagerness for play
you may be sure that his school
room is not properly ventilated, and
that he has not gotten the amount of
life giving oxygen that his Create,
intended him to have and which by
a law of his being he has a right to
demand. In such case it is your
plain duty to the child God has given
you to see that he is not robbed of
his rights in this respect. Public
opinion is all powerful in our free
democratic country and if the people
of a community protest against, the
slow poisoning of their children and
insist upon correction of the defects
it will be done. But I have detained
you too long and can therefore refer
only very briefly to the practical
subject of ventilation.
According to Parkes the amount
Of fresh air to be supplied during re-
pose ought to be:
For adult males, 5000 cubic feet
per head per hour
For adult females, 5000 cubic feet
per head per hour.
For children, 1000 cubic feet per
head per hour.
For a mixed community 5000 cubic
feet per head per hour.
Inasmuch as an average room
say Is feet square and ten feet pitch
contains only 225O cubic feet OF
air, it is evident that to meet the
above conditions additional fresh
air must be admitted and the air vi
tiated by breathing correspondingly
forced out, even where it has only
one occupant. If, however, it be the
family bedroom and occupied by a
man, his wife and one child, say, the
air must be completely changed four
times every hour. This change in the
air is what is called ventilation. Time
forbids my going into this subject,
so [ will merely state the practical
conclusions as applied to the condi-
tions that obtain with us. They are
these: For private houses I would
recommend that when the house is
cleaned up in the morning all the
windows should be thrown wide
open for the removal of the foul air
of the night and the filling the house
with perfectly pure air. Never have
anything but an open fireplace in a
sleeping room. The ordinary stove,
and especially the close kind that is
SO economical of fuel, is a sanitary
abomination. That very fact of its
economy of fuel condemns it, for il
means that there is no draught to
speak of going through 1t and the
air in the room is not changed as rap
idly as it should be. It is far better
to add to your blankets or even to
be little cold than to be warm and
half smothered by carbonic acid
But if you must have a stove and
more than one person sleeps in 6
room of average size, always-except
perhaps for night or two in the bit
terest weather-keep one window
partially open. If it be SO situated as
to cause draught upon the sleeper
fill the open space with cheese, OF
other porous cloth, and that while
letting in the air will prevent 6
draught. ;:
In the case of school houses of con
siderable size some approved artlfi
cial system of heating should be
used In smaller ones, owing to the
large size of the room and the en-
forced distance from the fire of many
lof the scholars, stoves must be used
But they should be 'sjacketed'
stoves, i. e. stoves with jacket OF
envelope around, them SO that pure
air having been led from the outside
through pipe may pass betwee1
the hot stove and the jacket and b
poured into the room warm. Thi.
method is simple and reasonabl,
cheap and should always be used If {
better plan be too expensive. Thel
at every recess the windows should bs
Opened and the air changed in tina
way too.
1 hope you will forgive my tres
passing SO long upon your patience
but this matter of the air we breath,
is vital one and one that is sadly neg
lected, and if I have succeeded in set
ting you to thinking about it I shal
feel no conjunction in having boret
you.