A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . - upon the advice of some. 166 HOSlITAl. AND ASYLUM CONSTRUCTION. expert engineer. The temperature in the uptakeusually is from 450 to 700 degrees, according to themethod of setting the boiler, and while such atemperature might not destroy all the germs, it cer-tainl} would some, and the general results would bedecidedly beneficial. A very simple, and on the whole perhaps better,arrangement is to build a wrought or cast ironsmoke stack in the centre of the masonry ventila-ting stack : when this is done i
A treatise on hospital and asylum construction; with special reference to pavilion wards . - upon the advice of some. 166 HOSlITAl. AND ASYLUM CONSTRUCTION. expert engineer. The temperature in the uptakeusually is from 450 to 700 degrees, according to themethod of setting the boiler, and while such atemperature might not destroy all the germs, it cer-tainl} would some, and the general results would bedecidedly beneficial. A very simple, and on the whole perhaps better,arrangement is to build a wrought or cast ironsmoke stack in the centre of the masonry ventila-ting stack : when this is done it should not be for-gotten that in the ring, formed by the concentricsurfaces of the exterior of the smoke stack and theinterior of the ventilating stack, there would bemuch more friction than in the main ventilatingshaft, and that consequentl}^ the area of the ringshould be considerably increased. CHAPTER USE OF THE FAN. In her Notes on Hospitals, Florence NigHtin-gale says : It was found in a certain Parisian hos-pital in which the ventilating arrangements weredeficient, that pyaemia and hospital gang
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