Too Much Shade.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 95, 25 April 1891, Page 3 (Supplement)

Too Much Shade.

Houses in places otherwise unexceptional are often so closely overhung with trees as to be in a state of humidity by preventing a free circulation of air and by obstructing free admittance of the sun's rays. Tree 3 growing: against the walls of houses and shrubs in confined place 3 near dwellings are injurious also as favouring humidity ; at a proper distance, on the other hand, treea are favourable to health. On this principle, says a noted English physician, it may be understood how the inhabitants of one house suffer from rheumatism, headache, nervous affections, and other consequences of living in a, confined humid atmosphere, while their nearest neighbour*, whose houses are otherwise situated, enjoy good health, and even how one side of a large building fully exposed to the sun and to a free circulation of air may be healthy, while the other side f overlookingdampshaded courts andgardenn, is unhealthy. Humid confined situations, subject to great alterations of temperature between day arid night.are most dengerou» to human life. Dryness, with a free circulation of air and a full exposure to the sun, are the material things to be attended to in choosing a residence.