The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-19
ASLEEP AMONG CHIMNEY POTS
A Physician Gives His Opin- ion Regarding the Benefit of Outdoor Sleeping to Both Mind and Body.
Addison w. Baird, M. D: (Exclusfve Service The Survey Press Rure9nN

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 A couple of years ago in the course of may lecture on the Prevention of for the Board of Education at schoolhouse in distant part of Brooklyn. I laid special emphasis on the fact that by initiating early nea- sures to bring about a cure in sus- pected or incipient cases no time was lost, inasmuch as all means intended benefit in any event. III particular I +dweIt upon the need of plenty of fresh air. After the lecture several in the audience stopped to discuss various phases of the subject, and one gen. tleTnan asked if I kept the windows of my bedroom wide open all night. It chanced to be bitterly cold weather, and I answered jestingly that one was tempted to keep them closed on such a night. Then he replied, 'tit, is case of do as say, and not do as I windows were regularly open at night and furnished with awnings. for use in stormy weather; but this chance re- mark led me to reflect whether a bet ter plan could not be devised.
 Some time later, in renovating my house, embraced the opportunity to build a, camp or sleeping room on the roof up among the chimney pots, as Sam Weller would say.
 The roof house is twelve feet square, and consists of steel framework cov- cred in with fireprOOf materials to comply with the building code. Across the front extends a series of doors, so that this whole side can be thrown open. The walls are double and the interspace has openings top and bot tom, thus providing free circulation of air: and the roof also is double, with ventilation through small cupo1a. The effect of this cellular construction is to prevent the apartment from bel coming overheated when the suns rays play upon it throughout the long summer days. The whole cost was less than four hundred dollars.
 The sleeping room is reached by house, thu coaming of the scuttle way having been carried up into the room, and the stairs guarded by a handrail- The room contains two iron cot beds, couple of chairs, shelves for extra bedding, a candle lantern and a few other appurtenances. As this sleeping apartment is shut off from the rest of the house by a door at the foot of the stairs the atmosphere in it is al- ways that of the outside air, hence there is no sensation of close, con fined space, such as finds in garret. Moreover, there is no such disadvantage as attaches to sleeping in an attic room4 for the reason that one can dress and bathe in the well warmed top floor. and even in winter time the exposure is only momentary. At night it takes a very brief time to ing ones movements are accelerated by contact with the cold air. Of course in cold weather it is necessary to have an ample supply of warm cov ering, but when one has settled for the night in a tunnel of blankets there is a very pleasing sensation of cosi- ness In hot weather the atmosphere in the sleeping room is never oppres- sive, and even on close summer nights refreshing movement of air is or dinarily found.
 Sometimes high winds are rather an moving. especially when it blows great guns during a winter gale. Rain on the roof is soothing rather than un- pleasant, although thunder storms in the night are occasionally disturbing. All of the series of doors enclosing the front of the roof-house are conn monlv left open ot, nigb+ ever in