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Title: A manual of practical hygiene
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Parkes, Edmund Alexander, 1819-1876 De Chaumont, F. S. B. François (Francis Stephen Benet François), 1833-1888
Subjects: Public health Sanitation Military hygiene Hygiene Military Medicine Public Health Sanitation
Publisher: New York : W. Wood & Company
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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—i , s. o H-s^i - Z ^ » u cn rt S ? * tf o: W ^ — 9 a g erf *^2 II o / VENTILATION AND WARMING. By D. F. LINCOLN, M.D. The subjects of ventilation and heating Lave to be studied, in America, froma point of view somewhat differing from that taken in England. As re-gards the requirements of cubic space and supply of fresh air, there is andcan be no difference. But in certain respects, for example as regards thestandard of temperature to be maintained, we find ourselves unable toadopt English rules, and the English would be equally unwilling to acceptours. The severity of our seasons, too, has forced us to make use of steamand stoves to a much greater extent than is usual in England, while theold-fashioned method of warming by the fireplace has fallen too much intodisuse among us. Hot-air Fuenaces. When the inmates of a private house seek comfort, their first thoughtof improvement is in the direction of increased warmth. The halls are tobe made as warm

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