HEATING APPLIANCES.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16225, 4 July 1918, Page 4

HEATING APPLIANCES.

INTERESTING APPEAL CASE. The hearing was continued yesterday afternoon, before Mr T-. A. B. Bailej, S M at the Magistrate s Court, of the appeal lodged by the.Direct Importing Company, Ltd. (Mr Alpers)_ against the requisition of the Inspector of tones (Mr, Raymond, K.C.), calling upon the company.to make certain alterations m connexion with the heating appliances in their business premisesv Tho examination of S. Hurst Sealer, architect, by Mr Alpers was resumed Witness stated that the top floor of tJje 1>.1.C. wos not so satisfactory as tHe ground and first floors. There wcr two fans for the ventilation of the top floor, but they were not m connexion on the occasion of his visit. The two fans were adequate to do the work, but there should be two m the rooms on tho top floor facing Lichfield street, lie was of opinion that the efficiency of the building in respect of ventilation would be much less if flue pipes were put through from the stores, as a current upwards or outwards could not be always guaranteed, and an inward or downward current would cause the products of combustion to be sent to tno floor level, from which, they would rise to' the noses of tho persons m the r °To Mr Raymond: He did not know whether it was due to carelessness or . to intention that the fans were . not working: he -understood that in winter time the fans, if /working, made the room too cold. -Regarding opinions expressed by Parkes and Km wood in their , work -'Hygiene and Public Health, re- ( ferring to the necessity for flues from was stoves, witness said that he did not ] agree with the opinions expressed: those ; who had been brought up m a certain school lives when they gotnjn in vears did not like to alter their opinions. Tfc would be unreasonable to do what the authors recommended, as they were asking for something to &e done that was not Witness expressed similar opinions \respecting citations from a work by Sir Arthur Whiteiegge and Sir George /Newman. To Mr Alpers: The experiments made bv Dr F. S. Toogood! in heating Lewisliam Infirmary with flueless gas stoves confirmed the views thtft be (witness) had expressed There was 4000 cubic feet of air space for every employee in the D.1.C.; and, if there were, in addition 300 customers, there would be 9000 cubic feet of air space for eviery (person in the building; the Factories ! Act provided for 400 cubic feet per Pe To° n Mr Raymond: The calculation of '4000 cubic feet was based'on the whole building; there was not 4000 cubic feet per person on the top floor: Dr. G. M. L. Lester stated that recently he visited the D.I.C. and made an inspection of the tnree floors. observed nothing objectionable about: the heaters, and from his observation of the employees as they left the bulla- . in"* ho inferred that they were as, healthy as any other lot of people. The deleteriousness of carbon-dioxide (0.0.2) depended entirely on its con-, centration; the modern school allowed a very mucli greater concentration or C.0.2 in the atmosphere without deleterious effect. . To Mr Raymond: Modern opinion considered that the emanations from the human skin were muc& more dangerous than C.0.2. Dr. M. Lonisson stated that he visited the D.I.C. on Friday last, about 8.15 p m.. and inspected the ground and first floors, and detected! no smell of gas: the air seemed to be perfectly , fresh. The employees appeared to him to bib perfectly healthy looking. To Mr Raymond: It would depend whether the 0-0.2 content was organic, or inorganic—whether it was polluted with emanations from the human body —if he allowed a tubercular or consumptive patient in atmosphere charged with a considerably larger percentage of C.0.2 than is present m normal atmosphere. . The further hearing of the appeal was adjoarned till to-morroy afternoon.