Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1910 — PURE AIR THE BEST MEDICINE. [ARTICLE]

PURE AIR THE BEST MEDICINE.

Only Bad Effect* Can Come from Hot, 111-Ventilated Rooms. “Pure air is more precious ihan gold,” said the venerable physician, according to the Cinclnati Commercial Tribune. ‘‘lt is the best medicine ip the world and means the prolongation of life and the cure for many ills which make my calling necessary profitable. Don’t tarry too long in crowded, ill-ventilated places and beware of ‘stuffy’ rooms. Now, the dangerous element in a stuffy place' like a rush hour subway train is, stricHy speaking, not due to carbonic acid gas. That, in its pure condition, would speedily cause death, but it has been established that the chief danger in breathing vitiiated air is not entirely or even chiefly due to carbonic acid gas, but rather to organic impurities which are invariably present in vitiated air. “And here it may be pointed out that the other chief constituent of breath is water, and an amount varying from six to twenty-seven ounces, it has been ealculated, may be given off in the course of twenty-four hours. Dr. De Chaunmoßt, a well known authority on this subject, has estimated that an assembly of 2,000 people during a period of two hours —that is, the duration of an ordinary meeting—■ may exhale in respiration and give off in perspiration about seventeen gallons of water. “The amount of carbonic acid given off by a man amounts to about threequarters of a cubic foot an hour, or nineteen cubic feet in twenty-four hours. Each individual, therefore, may be said to destroy about fifteen cubic feet or air an hour, or 380 cubic feet in twenty-four hours. And the man who occupies a hall bedroom and keeps bls window down while he reads by gas light far into the night should know that the burning jet gives off as much carbonic acid as he does himself. Then he may let in a little air.**