| Show no poison in so called bad aira air 91 says british hygiene expert theory not good sir leonard hill head of the association of hygiene inspectors for british public buildings whose works on ventilation are used as texts in university college london has received thousands of complaints about the alleged bad air in in buckingham palace the law courts and the house of commons he told the public health congress that as he could not reply to them individually he would reply to them collectively in the opportunity the congress had offered him reports a writer in the new york times all the statements made in popular books of hygiene about poisonous emanations given off by human beings in crowded rooms are untrue he said the stuffiness produced by filtering london air through layers of cotton wool complained of by king edward VII in respect of the picture gallery at buckingham palace was attributed by engineers of the office of works to de ionization of the air the question was investigated by me at the royal courts of justice I 1 was able to show that the interposition of a wool filter enormously reduced the velocity and cooling power of the air and that lack of cooling power was the cause of the discomfort in the case of the house of commons warm air is impelled through slits in the floor of the chamber and drawn out through holes in the ceiling the temperature is thus kept at 63 degrees but the incoming draft of air tends to produce cool feet a and nd hot heads readings taken showed that the cooling power at foot level was 50 to per cent greater than at head level members of the house vary in their opinions of the ventilation and heating system some say they never feel well when exposed to it while others make no complaint SOP so too some people are uncomfortable for table in shut up rooms and railway carriages cannot bear sto stoves ves hot water pipes and other sources windows of dark heat and like open windows and open fires while others indifferent to all these things call the other set of people e open air fiends no one has yet explained why there should be this striking difference between people |
