An experimental enquiry into the modes of warming and ventilating apartments, in reference to the health of their inmates / by Andrew Ure.

  • Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857.
Date:
[1836]
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Credit: An experimental enquiry into the modes of warming and ventilating apartments, in reference to the health of their inmates / by Andrew Ure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY INTO THE MODES OF WARMING AND VENTILATING APARTMENTS, IN REFERENCE TO THE HEALTH OF THEIR INMATES. By ANDREW URE, M.D. F.R.S. MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETIES, OF LOjfpON ; MEM. ACAD. N. S. PHILAD. ; CORRESP. MEMBER OF THE PHARM. OF THE SOCIE'TE INDUSTRIELLE DE MVLHAUSEN, ETCgj^C. ‘ GERMANT, s Read before the Royal Society, \Gth June, -i' '• ' A?;-.-: The subjects of warming and ventilating apartments, in reference to the comfort and health of their inmates, have lately excited a great deal of attention. The commissioners delegated hy government to enquire into the circumstances of factory labour adverted in their reports to some of the expedients employed for ventilating certain cotton mills; and, more recently, a select com- mittee of the House of Commons has considered and reported upon the best mode of ventilating and warming the new Houses of Parliament. In an extensive tour which I made, during the two preceding seasons, through England, France, and Belgium, to investigate the applications of chemical and mechanical science to manufactures, I paid particular attention to these subjects, so interesting to science, as well as humanity; and I have had my mind professionally turned to them by the Directors of the Customs Fund of Life Assurance, on account of the very general state of indisposition and disease prevailing among those of their officers (nearly 100 in number) engaged on duty in the Long Room of the Custom House, London. I now respectfully submit the result of my observations and experiments on these points of public interest to the Royal Society. The symptoms of disorder experienced hy the several gentle- men (about twenty in number), whom I examined out of a great many who were indisposed, were of a very uniform character. The following is the result of my researches : — A sense of tension or fulness in the head, with occasional flushings of the countenance, throbbing of the temples, and vertigo, followed, not unfrequently, with a confusion of ideas.