HOW TO SECURE SOUND SLEEP.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 32, 18 February 1875, Page 3

HOW TO SECURE SOUND SLEEP.

Ijord Kinnaird, in tHe' course"- of a' long letter, to .a contemporary, regarding the | ventilation"" of .dwelling-houses, t says islijg-ht r it A is .only, -necessary , to, open a hole in the. celling :pr r ;qpen a iwindow, at the jtop t to. allow :it!>to escape* :<and are - surprised when ;!these i openings are closed by, r the t inmates, to fee.l pold air, beating down on their heads.", iTheJactT is tb.at tbe.r foul , air .emitted from>the -lung-s of the occupants ; of a 'room "ascends; whiles warm, but- when; cold=- it falls to ! the ground:- i Any one taking a ladder and goingf to the top of a^roomf where a number ,oi" people are sitting; would find' the vitiated air unbearable;; ; A"bird could not. live long in it. ,-Whe/a there is a fire-place in a room the foja) air first ascends, and then when it gets^ cool descends,: and is then drawn up the chimney, so that a person sitting near the,' fire-place inhales this bad air." The reniedyis to'" take off the vitated air at the -ceiling by a syphon" acting on the reverse system of a .water syphon. Where there is no fireplace in ; a.room the; case is serious indeed. ;We found that a bird. placed on the- floor of. such a room/ where two people slept, was /dead in the morning. We're not our ancestors wise- in: . haying., high bed-r ;s"teadsj arid they were higher "than the iron bedsteads now commonly used. "Shakedowns" are" therefore most injurious to health. The great difficulty in ventilation is to make, the air move. -jk)ne plan may be seen carried put on a large, scale, in the Houses.of Parliament. A huge furnace at the top ofthe House, kept constantly burning, draws . its life from the ' Houses, libraries/ dining . ro.oms,. tea.room Sj committee .rpoms^jmcL kitchen of the Palace of Westminster, and such is its power that burnt ' pieces of paper have., been., drawn .from_ r the Victoria Station to the -Palace. The,real difficulty is the supplying of fresh air to fill up the. vacuum,: which in our dwellings is drawn from the window sashes, and doors, and keyholes.