Ventilation as a dynamical problem / [Mr. Shaw].

  • Shaw, Mr.
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[1902]
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    impossible to stay out the service, the special provision for ventilation is pointed to in triumphant vindication of the careful foresight of the designers. No church that I am acquainted with has really attempted to provide air for its congregation. The aeromotive force is derived from the differ¬ ence of temperature within and without the building, or from wind ; the inlets are such doors or windows as happen to be open—chinks do not count where a large congregation is con¬ cerned—the outlets are whatever the air can find in the roof or the upper windows. If you can give school chapels their due in the matter of fresh air you will initiate a neAV and most valuable departure in ventilation. As for studies, if a study has a fireplace, and a fire in it, you may rely upon its being ventilated for four persons or there¬ about. If it has no fire it would be well to consider what the aeromotive force is which produces ventilation. If the heating is by hot water the amount of opening required to ensure an adequate supply of air is so large that we approach the open-air system. I have not dealt with this system. I have supposed it not strictly included among systems of ventilation. It may, after all, be the proper plan to adopt ; but, regarding the matter purely from the point of view of history, without any scientific refinements, l suppose our ancestors tried it, and preferred tuberculosis. They may have been unwise.