Some considerations on the different ways of removing confined and infectious air : and the means adopted, with remarks on the contagion, in Maidstone gaol / by Thomas Day. To which is added an appendix, containing some experiments on ventilating small sitting rooms, and preventing chimneys from smoking.

  • Day, Thomas, 1749 or 1750-1818.
Date:
[1784]
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Credit: Some considerations on the different ways of removing confined and infectious air : and the means adopted, with remarks on the contagion, in Maidstone gaol / by Thomas Day. To which is added an appendix, containing some experiments on ventilating small sitting rooms, and preventing chimneys from smoking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    inhabited places, where the boiling lime could net be ufed. I thought it no more than juftice to inyfelf, and the world in general to make it public; by which means, not only rooms, and all places of confinement, where the air may be fouled, in this neighbourhood, or even in this country; may be cleared and rendered fafe, but alfo in other parts of the world at a greater diftance. And although the ufe of the mower machine alone, may not always anfwer the effect, of en- tirely purifying infe&ed and confined air; yet, I hope, from the apparent fuccefs that followed its application here; it may be at leaft numbered amongft the ufeful and eafy means for effecting fuch defirable purpofes. Perfons concerned in keeping and fupcrintend- ing fuch places, will reflect with themfelves, how far my obfervations correfpond with their own ideas; and will adopt them accordingly, that they may render fuch fervices a blcfling to mankind in general. ? The