Ventilation of Houses.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 472, 17 May 1890, Page 5

Ventilation of Houses.

A fertile cause of disease among children is the bad ventilation of their sleeping apartments, a circumstance to which we desire to call the attention of mothers. Generally, the smallest room in the house is selected for a nursery ; and when this is not done, a chamber in a back building, or in the upper storey, where the ceiling is low, is chosen. Now young infants and growing children require pure air especially. Life as yet is young in them, and vitality comparatively deficient. Nourishing food is not more necessary to them chan fresh air, without which the lungs acquire a morbid action, and weakness of constitution, if nob positive disease, is superinduced. Many an infant has lost it° life in consequence of being kept in a badly ventilated apartment. The impure air has gradually undermined its vitality, making it pale and feeble, and when one of the disorders common to children has seized it, it has died; when, had it breathed purer air, it would have possessed a more vigorous constitution, and, therefore, have successfully passed through the disease. Mothers are too afraid of giving their children cold by exposing them to fresh air. Accustom your offspring, from their earliest infancy, to pure air, avoiding draughts, and be assured nob only will their health be better, bub their constitution also.