Second report from the Select Committee on Ventilation and Lighting of the House : together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Ventilation of the House.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Second report from the Select Committee on Ventilation and Lighting of the House : together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R. Chalmers, Esq. 25 March ' 1852. 5. Generally speaking, is the air agreeable when there is no smoke ?—It is ; but we suffer sometimes from the cold air, from the windows not being sufficiently tight; complaints of that kind I have sometimes heard. 6. What you principally suffer from is the smoky chimney? —Yes. 7. Mr. Greene.'] What is the number of rooms occupie(j by yourself and the other Committee clerks ?—I occupy small private room which looks over the Speaker's court; there is only one other room which is occupied by the rest of the office, which fronts the river. 8. To which of the rooms does your observation respect- ing the smoke apply ?—It applies to my own room chiefly, but the other room also suffers from smoke, but not to such an extent as mine. 9. Mr. Stephenson.'] You said that you felt some incon- venience from the draught from the windows. Does that depend upon any particular direction of the wind?—I think it does ; it is felt most when the wind blows from the east. 10. But generally you find the ingress of the air incon- venient ?—Yes ; we complain that the windows are. not suffi- ciently tight whenever the wind blows strongly in that direction. 11. Mr. Hope.] Did you ever go into a new house before ? —Yes. 12. Did you ever know a new house in which the chimnies did not smoke ?-- No, I cannot say that I did. Lieut.-col. T.P. Thompson, M. P. Lieutenant-colonel T. Perronet Thompson, a Member of The House; Examined. 13. Chairman.] YOU attend here to-day at the request of the Chairman?—I do. 14. You are a very constant attendant at the House of Commons ?—Pretty constant. 15. Therefore you are able to speak as to your own feel- ings with regard to the warming and ventilation of the House ?—I am. 16. Will you have the goodness to state what your feel- ings have been since you have sat in the New House ; whether you find fault with the ventilation, or whether it is such as you approve ?—I have not seen any reason to find fault with the ventilation of the House generally. I have found it sometimes a little cold, but that I apprehend is a mere matter of regulation: the heat is regulated, and I have
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