Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts.

  • Burdett, Henry C., Sir, 1847-1920.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Helps to health : the habitation, the nursery, the school-room, and the person, with a chapter on pleasure and health resorts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    LIGHTING AND FURNITURE OF THE NURSERY. that gas is practically harmless. The most simple plan is to have a large bell glass over the globe, which opens at the top into a short, wide tube, leading into the chimney. This small apparatus can be fitted into any chimney for the trifling sum of 15s., and answers admirably. In this arrangement the gas must be placed over or near the fireplace. If it is desired to have it in the centre of the room, however, there are now numerous arrangements for carrying off the pro- ducts of combustion by a flue through the ceiling, the gas being burnt in a globe communicating with this flue, so that no difficulty should arise in practically rendering gas harmless for nurseries. In country houses it is a case of Hobson's choice, and lamps or candles must be used. In the event of the former being chosen, Colza oil should be preferred to paraffin on account of the absence of smell and of its non- inflammability. Furniture.—There should be no useless curtains and bed- hangings to obstruct the air, and cupboards built into recesses in the walls are preferable to chests of drawers, as they do not harbour dust and dirt. There should be no unnecessary cupboards, but, as far as practicable, clothes, linen, &c., should be stored in a separate room. This must depend greatly on the size of the house and the number of children. Things used daily are most conveniently kept close at hand. Practically, cupboards will be required for clothes, linen, and a certain amount of crockery; a separate one. should be provided for the children's playthings, and a small locked one for the safe keeping of poisonous or dangerous articles, as medicines, knives, &c, A high fender fastened by a hook to the sides of the fireplace is necessary to protect from burning, but the children should be taught never to throw things on the fire. The bedsteads and cots should be made of iron, and those cots are to be preferred in which the sides are made of close work, not bars. Children often get their arms or feet