In this unventilated and diabolical hollow, dreadful indeed were the sufferings in store both for man and beast.
The air in the unventilated locker grew ever more stuffy and velvety as the two people continued to breathe it.
In the heat of those August days on the Bosphorus the stifling stuffiness of the unventilated little cabin became almost unbearable.
Why are we insensible to the gradual vitiation of the air of an unventilated room?
We are insensible of the impure air of unventilated sleeping-rooms, until we leave them for a walk or ride.
What is said of the impure air of unventilated rooms?
The impure air of unventilated rooms may be breathed, and the effect be so gradual as not to arrest attention; yet it is a violation of the physical laws, and, sooner or later, we pay the penalty in disease and suffering.
Why do lamps give but a faint light in crowded, unventilated rooms?
A man who works in the open air suffers more when placed in a small, unventilated room, than one who is accustomed to breathe the confined air of workshops.
Thus Bayley refers, in the endemic of Bromley,[21] the first cases to unventilated sewers and cesspools.
This had undoubtedly the effect of relieving the pressure on the atmosphere of the pipe caused by the filling of unventilated sewers with tide-water or storm-water, or by a sudden increase of temperature from the admission of hot water.
The heavy atmosphere of overcrowded, unventilated rooms is due to moisture exhalation, body odors and increased carbonic acid gas.
In any unventilated room occupied by a considerable number of people the humidity is thus increased a very noticeable amount.
Three foul pan closets and numerous other "conveniences," all leading to unventilated cesspool.
One influence came within the range of her experience, the other was beyond her comprehension, and her daughter died in an absolutely dark, unventilated bedroom, in which she had slept eight years.
Mothers, after nights spent in overcrowded, unventilated bedrooms caring for nursing babies, began getting breakfast at five o'clock in the morning.
The bedroom is perfectly dark, ventilated by a square window into perfectly dark, unventilated halls.
The same writer illustrates this, by the history of a French village where the inhabitants all slept in close, unventilated houses.
These varieties probably come from the practice of churning only at long intervals, and keeping the cream meanwhile in unventilated cellars or dairies, the air of which is loaded with the effluvia of vegetable substances.
The decayed animal matter sent off from the skin and lungs in a close, unventilated bedroom is one thing that generates these zymotic diseases.
One of the results of unventilated rooms is scrofula, A distinguished French physician, M.
Others attribute it to the close unventilatedhats commonly worn by men.
Indeed, the foul and dangerous gases are not only found in the sewers themselves, but in the unventilated waste pipes, and those which are in process of being clogged by the foul matter passing through them.
An atmosphere confined about a house by too dense foliage is, like the air of an unventilated room, not fit for practical purposes.
Her son, a boy of sixteen, had been arrested two months before and had been waiting trial in an unventilated cell, originally designed for a single occupant, with two others.
There were six other children, all in one unventilated room, its single window looked out on a dark, choked airshaft, and the father was a drunkard.
I heard a consumptive say that he left a sanatorium for a day class after trying for three nights to sleep in an unventilated ward.
Neither the moral code nor the law of self-preservation enjoins a tuberculous mother to take alcohol or to sleep in an unventilated room, even if an uninformed physician prescribes it.
Days in the unventilated tenement and nights in a "dark room" meant that she would never live to finish the bottle.
The superheated air thickened with hot human breath and tobacco smoke stood stagnant like a miasma in the unventilated wings and back of the stage.
Here is a girl living in an inside bedroom in a tenement, and working ten or eleven hours a day in an unventilated factory, and she is ill with tuberculosis.
The heat of the railway cars and theirunventilated condition invariably brings it back when I think it going.
At the ball they had (in a perfectly unventilated building), their new leather belts and pouches smelt so fearfully that it was, as my eldest daughter said, like shoemaking in a great prison.
How my heart has ached, to see the consumptive patient put away in a bed, behind curtains, in an unventilated room, the doors and windows carefully closed, to shut out the very food for which his lungs and system were famishing!
The dark, unventilated bedroom is going with them, and the open sewer.
Perhaps no more impressive proof of this is seen than in the ravages of consumption, which is so prone to attack those whose vitality is diminished by living in unhealthy and unventilated cellars or in crowded tenements.
Many thousands more are subsequently sacrificed in consequence of occupying small and unventilated bed-rooms and school-rooms, which, by a practical knowledge of the principles of physiology, might be saved.
