Show Household Heating I IHas Has Its Dangers I Dont Don't Be Careless I Carbon Monoxide Gas GasIs Gasis Is IB Chief Safety Threat IT TT SEEMS just yesterday or orA A at the tIle most the day before that we were looking for scientific scientific guidance on how to avoid the dangers and discomforts of hot bot weather Now we are reminded re reminded reminded re- re minded that winter as well as summer lummer has hazards connected with heat The Tile wintertime winter dangers of or house told hold heating are pointed out by Dr Wilmer 11 H. Schulze of the tile Baltimore City health department Chief of these these dangers Is that of or carbon mono mon monoxide oxide poisoning Beware Carbon Monoxide Keep In Ln mind the fact that any fuel whether wood coal oil or orgas orgas orgas gas when Incompletely burned pro daces varyIng amounts of poisonous poison poison- ous gas gns carbon monoxide Doctor Schulze Cautions In order older to avoid old contaminating the air In your home with this gas the products of combustion combustion com coin bustion bastion from the tile heating hen ting plant are piped Into a chimney and escape Into the outside air As long as there Is I. no obstruction to the fre Ire passage of the gases cases to the o there Is U little danger of a carbon carbon- monoxide hazard Accumulations of soot In chimneys chim flora and vent pipes solid objects I which have fallen Into the chimney chimney chim chim- ney Dey or something that Is entirely shutting oft off the chimney draft may I result In carbon monoxide permeating sting the house because of Incompletely Incompletely incompletely burned fuel To avoid such an occurrence It Is best test to Inspect your four heating beating plant before belore It Is III placed In operation for the winter months and periodically during the heating beating season Gas Kills Insidiously Remember that carbon monoxide is Ja a very very poisonous gas and like a thief tiller in the he night sometimes catches persons unawares Further discussing potential heatIng heating heat- heat Ing ng hazards In homes Doctor Schulze stresses the tile value of placing placing ing fog ashes In metal receptacles The use of wooden or cardboard containers may cause a fire probably probably ably during the night Never attempt attempt at at- tempt to start a fire ore by pouring inflammable Inflammable In flammable liquids such as kerosene on the tile paper or wood fuel a dangerous dangerous dangerous dan dan- explosion Is likely to result from such a practice Frequently we augment the general general gen gen- eral heating system In the home by bythe bythe bythe the use o 0 of room heaters on cool evenIngs evenings evenings eve eve- In the fall or on extremely cold nights during the he winter ably the tile most popular ty types s of heaters heat beat ers era are those which burn gas Room heating beating should be connected with rigid metal piping whenever pos pos- sible Never use plain rubber tubing or flexible spiral-metal spiral tubing tubing on gas appliances These soon deteriorate ate crack and allow unburned gas gasto gasto gasto to escape It Is safer not to permit permit permit per per- mit a gas appliance to operate In Ina Ina ina a room room throughout the whole night An accident may cause the flame to tobe tobe tobe be extinguished with the result that the occupants of or the room are exposed to dangerous amounts of or carbon while asleep If during the tile operation of your Jour heating plant or room heaters you yon notice persistent headaches which are sometimes accompanied by nausea nausea nausea nau nau- sea or vomiting It may be that carbon car bon boa monoxide Is escaping Into the house Look Into the matter at once before a more serious result follows fol tol fol- fol lows Doctor urges |