Air and moisture on shipboard : a fragment of applied physiology / by Th. J. Turner.

  • Turner, Thomas J., 1815-1901.
Date:
[1877?]
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Credit: Air and moisture on shipboard : a fragment of applied physiology / by Th. J. Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    •• PUrity of the air is essential to the maintenance of health. If this proposition he uot admitted, all reasoning on (he matter must cease.—Ackland. •• Of all thr atmospheric agents, it is the bumiditj of the air that is most dangerous to the crew.—Levy. In the report of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting for the year 1S77. made to the honorable Secretary of the Navy, by its chief, Com- modore R. W. Shufeldt, U. 8. N., the importance of a more efficient ventilation of ships of war was commented upon and recommendations made toward securing a larger supply of air to the lower decks of our vessels than now obtains. A chart exhibiting the cubic air-space for each officer and man on board Of three vessels taken as the exponents of the various rates in the service was appended to this report. In this chart the cubic air-space in vessels of the Swatara class equals :;i'4 cubic feet for each officer, 58 cubic feet for each man, with a comple- ment of 25 officers ami ISO men; in those of the Richmond class, 273 cubic feet per officer, ami 68 cubic feet per man. with a complement of 34 officers anil 285 men; in vessels of the MiantonomoL rating. L,158 cubic feet per officer and 81 cubic feet perman,witha complement of 13 officers ami 171 men. These numbers of cubic feet per person are obtained by dividing the total cubic air-space on the lower deck by the complement of officers and men. The object of a portion of this paper is to exhibit and demonstrate from official data, physiologically considered, the inefficiency of the present as well as the necessity tint obtains for a better ventilation. It is obvious tint the number of the crew of a vessel of war is de- termine;! by the requireinsnts of the battery and the handling of the ship, and in the instances named limited air-space or overcrowding is an unavoidable consequence. A FRAGMENT OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY. Bj I'n. .1. Ti RNER, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., Medical Inspector United stales Navy.