Ventilation.
It is only of late yeara that the paramount importance of pure air has been under&toud. It cannot be too widely known that consumption, that dreaded bcourga of civilised race*, is not a disease due to cold air or damp air, but to confined air. Cold and damp maj cause bronchitis, or pneumonia, or rheumatism ; but they do not directly cau&e consutnptipn, which ie, speaking broidly, due to breathing air which has been, more or lesF, already breathed, and therefore contains both products of combustion and emanations from the body itself. It is probable enough that the products of insensible perspiration have also effect in poisoning confined air ; but the main thing undoubtedly is that the air has been breathed. Hence it is that when we civilise the savage, or compel him to live in Louses, the change from the free open air to that of rooms kills off the race by consumption. For years the more " delicate " animals in our
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Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 50
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162Ventilation. Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 50
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