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Page 386 - Then why do you lie on that side ? ' He does not know ; but we do. It is because it is the side towards the window. A fashionable physician has recently published, in a Government report, that he always turns his patients...
Page 386 - Heavy, thick, dark window or bed curtains should, however, hardly ever be need for any kind of sick in this country. A light white curtain at the head of the bed is, in general, all that is necessary, and a green blind to the window, to be drawn down only when necessary. One of the greatest observers of human things (not physiological) says, in another language, "Where there is sun there is thought.
Page 386 - Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited — though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air — of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.
Page 386 - Where there is sun there is thought.' All physiology goes to confirm this. Where is the shady side of deep valleys, there is Cretinism. Where are cellars and the unsunned sides of narrow streets, there is the degeneracy and weakness of the human race — mind and body equally degenerating.
Page 747 - He shall cause the floor of such earthcloset or privy to be flagged or paved with hard tiles or other non-absorbent material, and he shall construct such floor so that it shall be in every part thereof at a height of not less than six inches above the level of the surface of the ground adjoining such earthcloset or privy, and so that such floor shall have a fall or inclination towards the door of such earthcloset or privy of half an inch to the foot.
Page 316 - A clean, fresh, and wellordered house exercises over its inmates a moral no less than a physical influence, and has a direct tendency to make the members of the family sober^ peaceable, and considerate of the feelings and happiness of each other.
Page 397 - If in a very narrow street or lane, we look out of a window with the eye in the same plane as the outer face of the wall in which the window is placed, we shall see the whole of the sky by which the apartment can be illuminated. If we now withdraw the eye...
Page 598 - ... desire indoors, we sacrifice purity of air. Therefore, however impure the outer air is, that of our houses is less pure ; and it may be accepted as an axiom that by the best ventilating arrangements we can only get air of a certain standard of impurity, and that any ventilating arrangements are only makeshifts to assist in remedying the evils to which we are exposed from the necessity of obtaining an atmosphere in our houses different in temperature from that of the outer air. On the other hand,...
Page 390 - We also need to recognize that it is more desirable to err on the side of too much rather than too little.
Page 316 - ... tends directly to make every dweller in such a hovel regardless of the feelings and happiness of each other, selfish, and sensual; and the connection is obvious between the constant indulgence of appetites and passions of this class, and the formation of habits of idleness, dishonesty, debauchery, and violence — in a word, the training to every kind and degree of brutality and ruffianism.