Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — First Floors Healthy. [ARTICLE]

First Floors Healthy.

A Hungarian professor has been giving his attention to the degrees ot health enjoyed by the various classes of lodger# and gives the palm to the first and second floors. The cellars are the least wholesome for a dwellingplace; then the third floors, and then the ground floors. The tenants of the first and second floors live longest. The advantages of the pure air of the upper stories are overbalanced by the exertion of climbing the stairs. It would appear that a fifth or sixth floor with a lift would be, from a sanitary as from a practical point of view, nearest heaven.