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cleanliness and ventilation of their rooms, are habitually exposing themselves to the
injurious effects of a vitiated atmosphere. In many dwellings the windows, which
are practically the only means of efficiently purifying the rooms with fresh air, are
kept closed from one week's end to another. Hundreds of men, women and children,
for many hours out of the 24, breath air highly prejudicial to* their healths, and which
is not infrequently disgusting fo the sense of smell. If the fact were recognised and
acted upon by everybody, that an abundance of fresh air in the dwelling is absolutely
essential for the preservation of health, many of the small ailments would not be
nearly so commonly met with as they are, and there is not the slightest doubt that the
health of the people generally would undergo a marked improvement.