Disease in Churches.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 82, 9 January 1896, Page 4

Disease in Churches.

To those who are not in perfect health, few things are more calculated to give rise to "any milady to which they may have a tendency than sitting in a chilly church after a sharp walk, which the ineradicable tendency to starting late seems to impose on all churchgoer?. Perhaps the worst error in warming churches is committed by those who put off the commencement of tbe process until Saturday night, or may be Sunday morning. A little firo all the week, with only just enough ventilation to keep the air sweet, will do far more to make the Fabric warm than a great blaze for a few hours. When churches- are too hot (observes the ' British Medical Journal ') people catch cold in consequence of the draughts which are produced, and from the chill on coming out again. These are what one may call honest colds — stiff necks, neuralgia?, lumbaeos, and sometimes " cold in the head " — things they mightdcatoh anywhere from sitting in a ■draught even of pure air. Unfortunately too often the heat is.the heat of closeness, rather than of excess of fire, and then the reoults aro much more injurious.