Ventilation : a text-book to the practice of the art of ventilating buildings with a supplementary chapter upon air testing / by William Paton Buchan.

  • Buchan, William Paton.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ventilation : a text-book to the practice of the art of ventilating buildings with a supplementary chapter upon air testing / by William Paton Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PKEFACE. Of all the requisites for a really healthy and comfort- able dwelling, school, hall, or church, &c._, none has been so sadly and foolishly neglected hitherto as good Ventilation. Due provision for this important hygienic element is, in the great majority of our buildings, most conspicuous by its absence. Now, however, the public are awakening to the fact that this penny-wise-and- pound-f oolish policy is a great mistake, and the demand is everywhere being made for improvement. Since the writer issued his Text-Book on Plumbing and House Drainage in 1876, there has been a won- derful reformation in sanitary practice in these parti- culars. To aid in completing the work, this companion treatise on Yentilation is now issued, in the expectation that it may be as useful and as successful as its pre- decessor. A cheap and popular illustrated practical work on Yentilation—that would be useful alike to the Architect, the Physician, and the Artisan, as well as interesting