VENTILATION.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 53, 31 October 1891, Page 2

VENTILATION.

TO THE EDITOROF THE STAR. j Sir — Knowißg your,, columns are alI ways open .for people to -(express their grievances, t wish to call the attention of the proprietor of -the Ifeildiag Assembly Booms to the inadequate meansof ventilation in the building. C It must-haya been patent to'the dullest observer that the air on the night' of 'the; appearance of the Payne family was most oppressiye, even sickening." Pure air is the great essential of all the necessaries of life, and to have a hall of public, amusement properly ventilated should,. in the opinion of the writer, be as compulsory "as a fire escape- to an hotel. It * may astonish- some" of your readers to know that it takes nearly 3000 cubic feet of fresh air to^supply one person for an hour. ' Some person opened the doors by the stage for a time, bnfc „ for some reason it was shut shortly after. As everyone knows hot 'air/ rises, 'and if it has no means of escape through -the roof, consequently you must, in a crowded house like last Thursday, breathe one another's breath over and over again, and air having once parsed through the lungs is highly poisonous. As a suggestion, the skylights of the Assembly. Booms could be made to open and shut by means of cords and hinges like most churches, for very little expense. " v - " I am, &c.,' One op the Sufferers.