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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HOUSE HYGIENE IF the consumptive is fortunate enough to be able to select a house to suit him, wood con- House struction is to be preferred to stone in Hygiene most climates, as it is less apt to retain moisture. Choose a house which is open all around to the air and sun, and which is not shut in by heavy trees or shadowed by ad- Situation jaceut buildings. See, if possible, that the ground is well drained, the soil porous?as sand or gravel, ?and that the house is not built in a hollow, or the foundation placed below the level of some adjacent stream or other body of water. The house should be sheltered, by hills or trees, from the north and east winds, or those most prevalent and cold. The cellar ought to be well cemented, with walls dry at all times. The windows should be large, and numerous enough to permit light to enter the room even to excess. A porch or piazza on the south side of the house, to serve as a living room, is almost a necessity. The heating of the house is of great importance in a climate like that of the temperate zone. The objection to hot water or steam, if it is Heating and done by the direct method with fix- Ventilation tures in the room, is that the ventilation must depend on windows. The furnace is often an abomination, with its gases and over-dried air; even the primitive fireplace, or stove, is an improvement, as these at least insure some supply of air. Gas stoves must be prohibited, at least such as are generally used. The best method of heating is an indirect system from coils in the cellar, the heat and supply of air being controlled automatically. The temperature of the room is controlled by a thermostat, and all air is passed through screens and then supplied with moisture, while each room is separately ventilated from a..


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217114011
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217114016
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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