Excerpt from House Health: And Other Papers The influences that cause these conditions are presumably not numerous, and they are easily catalogued. First is bad ventilation of houses, especially in cold weather. Most of even the rich, who do not need to be terrified by their coal bills, live with insufficient ventila tion of their dwellings. More than cubic feet of fresh air per hour for each person should enter the house for even fair ventila tion. Not one house in a thousand in cold weather fulfills this condition, or a quarter of it; and hardly a single house among the poor, unless it is unavoidable by reason of cracks and other openings that cannot be stopped. The rule is to batten up every crack and stop every Opening. Weather strips are wrongly supposed to be a necessity in every house in cold climates. If not weather strips, then rags, paper, or Old clothes are used - any thing to keep out every current of fresh air. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.