The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . is introducedfor heating the chamber. In such rooms improvement may bemade by placing a small transom window over the door, wherethe door opens into an outer hallway, and by inserting a narrowstrip of wood under the lower window sash, so as to allow a cur-rent of fresh air to enter between the two sashes without produc-ing a direct draft upon the occupants. Scarcely one week has elapsed at t
The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government; . is introducedfor heating the chamber. In such rooms improvement may bemade by placing a small transom window over the door, wherethe door opens into an outer hallway, and by inserting a narrowstrip of wood under the lower window sash, so as to allow a cur-rent of fresh air to enter between the two sashes without produc-ing a direct draft upon the occupants. Scarcely one week has elapsed at the present writing sincethe writer was called to inspect a small cottage upon an isolatedfarm, having twelve inmates crowded in a very small space,among whom six cases of serious illness had occurred, with twodeaths, in less than one week, the rapid spread of which was par-tially due, in the writers opinion, to the contracted apartments inwhich the familv were living. The ticketed house system ofGlasgow, in which the inhabitants of small tenements are pro-tected by a law which fixes a minimum of cubic air-space foreach occupant, might well be applied to many farm dwellings asat present
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