New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
WINTER TENIIL4IION
People Careless Of TIER Health at
This Season.

Scientific knowledge is only trained common
sense" remarked architect lately in CONVERSE
ton with well known physician
Yes" rejoined the latter, but 1t seems as II
some neonIe hadn't any common sense to train
The subject under discussion ventilation The
architect had complained that the majority or MS
clients were willing to spend $4,000 for ginger
bread cornces' TO every one he could perSu"ue
them to Law out for ventilation purposes.
Yes" acceded the doctor Il know people VINO
will .spend innumerable dollars in patent medicines
and grudge nothing that goes for food' yet tney
are mortaIly afraid to inhale breath OF Ihsht
air and are literally oxygen starved
They need little scientific knowledge on 'lie
subject urged the architect
They need little ordinary common sense
growled the physician Why. we i've on ar
Normally we breathe at least eighteen tunes every
minute taking in about sixty barrels In the TWEEN
+,-fonr hours IL we eat impure food we don
keep it up day in and day out like that AT least,
between meals the system has little respite anu
chance TO even matters up. But as ofeatniIS
navcr ceases we are day and night adding to the
ironurites OF the system when we fail to Vehtllate
7 tau Won had air is the of more malad1es
than any other factor in our daily liVeS' III nj
tb. snaaker went into few details that are wen
to know and heed at this season of the year
FACTS ABOUT FRESH AIR
"To begin with he said, 1T may De "e
realize Just what fresh air is ana why II , Ill
sarv In addition the sixty barrels neeueu ~ uails
for the lungs of the average individual the pole'
of the skim of which there are several millions
the surface of the body (from two to three tlioui
70 every square inch of the palm OF the manu-
arc constantly excreting effete substances 10 'io
,,r+ o4 a Mound or more daily. These pores
are like innumerable sewer or drainage pipes en-
hourly add their quota of impurlty 10 lLe ~
nbere surrounding every living being. ms 'oii
bipad with the carbonic gas, ranging III amount
80 - I g oubic feet an hour, according to the
activity of the individual. which each breather coh
tributes TO the air about him, Will give perhaps T."
faint idea of the of the atmosphere III
eftoor feet SQUARE for instance, occupied by haI
- dozan people This is allowing much oetler
,,orcan+aqe than is usually found IN chulcheS,
theatres schools, offices or in the lh"Joii'' -
dwellings - l.. ,,rosant in
tho ,,ronortinn of about four parts 10 lovoo- y" w"
:. i,craaees 10 the amount of ten parts 10 lo'''"
the people who have to breathe II oeslh u "
uncomfortable. headachy and lrrltapie' put .a =,
,,sualIy Law this the weather ana Uy 10 Snut -
ONT by keeping the windows tightly closed. "heh
the proportion of carbonic gas reaches thirtS W ol
forty nar,s to 10000 these benghted people DesHh
to take medicine and go TO bed.
what ought to happen with each indrawn breath
is an exchange of all the impurities OF the venogs
blood passing through the l@unEs @ I3a ss the feeding
ing amount of oxygen, the active gas ote dbnre
,rsryninv life giving principle of the atInoSpleFe
What aeLu'iIS iSatos Of dwellings, in winter is the
~ forty or nifty parts Of efuvia from other lungs
%baTgeS ~ re- with impurities. increased by having been
eathed several hundred times during the DAY
MENTAL. AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
Intelligent and refined people will persist in such
usages which when considers the actual facts
invol.ed. may be characterized as very uncieahly
When the indrawn breath fails to burn up
and remove the impurities from the blood these
accumulate with the days and years, and vitiate
first the lung tissues. and by degrees every part
Gle Of the physical frame As the health OF the
hody reacts on the mental and moral me- TINS I'M I'M
irrnair the mind and undermine the charactel
Fresh is primary means OF SLtdcer anu p:i4
ventilation brings out every talht ot o'iei''" ''
when air laden with minute particles OF decdy
ing animal matter. poisonous gases ana distdse
germs from other lungs is inhaled over and over
~ fnllr II means nervousness and exhaustion
and about one-half the output of work that might
partial stagnaton Of all physical funetlons ana no
amount OF medicine will ever take the place or the
normal quota OF clean. fresh air .,,
nc "a Injury by no the necessity that 1000
and drink are. Night air also, FOR some equally
mysterious cause is regarded as injurious ana yer
hat else is there to breathe at night as Flor
enCe NightingaIe says. As a matter of fact. might
air in the city is far less impure than day ar
shat themselves up in ten by twelve apartneiiI i
and then wonder that they wake in the morning
with "A bad taste and a headache. and generally
blue outlook on life.
IDEAL VENTILATION.
THE ideal ventilation for buildings, large and
small IS one that provides continuous current OF
fresh heated air through each apartment by means
Of fans vents and other structural apparatus
These however apply only to the 'unbuilt house.
This In reality. does little more than make a cold
spot in the air near the opening. Two openings OF
some sort so that current is produced are neces-