The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-02-20
GOOD VENTILATION.
An inexpensive Means of Wardin.
OFF Disease Is Suggested.

The North Carolina State Board ~
Health has issued the following.
Not one house III Il hundred is
properly heated and Nentilated. Inis
is one reason for our having twice or
three times the Of celAs.
headaches, pneumonia and catarrhal
troubles and genera ~ineffcienty that
We should have III the winter. Ne
sic SO closely housed at his season
OF the year that in badly heated and
Ventilated rooms, churches. school
houses and public halls it is extremely
easy TO contract ~gions dis .sts
and even consumption itself.
But You say, What is proper neat
Ing and ventilating: Proper heating
and v~entilating is supplying from l.
900 to 5000 cubic feet Of fresh air
at a temperature Of 20 degrees TO
each person every hour. In addition
TO this, h air should contain r4l-
siderable moisture. Air that Is 60
dry that it will shrink and draw Turn
lture apart and Kill flowers and plants
IN a room is at least unft for human
use.
In the average house using q fire.
place or stove for heating it is diff
ficult to properly heat or venlllate
the house in cold weather. but wen
then much can be done to impro,e
conditions.
In the first place, get the thermun-
eter habit. Keep an easily read ,ner-
mometer in the living room ana the
work room. Hang it in q place where
it can be readily seen and a place
having the average room Temporal
ture. Next, keep this thermon, ter
standing at rs nearly 20 degrees as
possible.
In Nentilating don't be afraid II
fresh air. Warm it up If possible
but have it in the room at all times
regardless Of its incoming tempe1a-
lure. f1replaceS are now so con.
s'Iuctsd that fresh air is admitted
nom below the floor and passes Up
behind and at the sides Of the CRATE,
where it is heated and then allowed
70 enter the room above the fire
place. Or his heated air may also
be allowed to enter an adjoining room
or into one or more rOOmS above II
stoves are used, by all means have
them surrounded, at least part way.
with some kind of tapanned OF gal
Vanlzed iron shield; this shield should
extend TO the f1oor. Fresh air should
De admitted through an opening IN
the moor beneath the stove. SO that
1t may become heated by passing up
between the stove and the shield.
While these are probably the best
means OF warming the air tina comes
INTO a room, q small moun Of fresh
AIR may be admitted by raising the
lower SASH OF the window about two
lncnes ana placing a strip in the
opening below the sash. This vii
permit a small quantity Of air to
enter near the middle Of the win
E doW betWeen the two sashes and viii
! give 1t an upward motion as it en-.
, ters the room, thus preventing colo
! uraits. Better ventilation may b,
' an irresistible impulsion to be a doe
! secured by raising the lower sash sev.
0 eral inches and placing a shield op.
T poslte this opening to defect the in
coming current OF air.
Another excellent practical mean;
OF Ventllatlng is by thoroughly air
5 ing the living rooms not less thai
three or tour times a day. This i
oone oy simply opening the window
ana doors for a minute or two an,
allowing fresh air to food the room
d Inc feeling Of exhileration following
' these airinss" is we'll worth tn
q trouble. Try it once. Fresh air i
cheap and no trust controls il. lie
/ US have our share Of it.