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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    attention was called to it, and I perceived an unpleasant J. W. Patten smell, but not of late. 114. Did you happen to be in the House yesterday morn- ing at the sitting ?—I was. 115. Did you observe a bad smell then?—I did not observe it. 116. Mr. Drummond.^ You specified one room as being particularly ccld ; in that room is the surface of glass larger in proportion to the size of the room than it is in this room ?—T think it is. I think these diamond windows can- not be made as they now are to shut sufficiently close; in several of the committee-rooms we have tried to get them closer, and we have not been able to succeed. I think they vary according to the temperature outside, and that some- times it is almost impossible to get them closed sufficiently to keep out the draught. Esq., m. p. 25 March 1852. Colonel Frederick Romilly, a Member of the House ; Examined. 117. Chairman.'] YOU attend the Committee to-day at my request ?—1 do. 118. Will you have the goodness to state whether you have suffered from the ventilation of the House, or whether you have found it agreeable?—I must confine my evidence to stating the fact that I have suffered a great deal from head- aches in this House which I was not subject to in the old House, and it is very much the same sort of head-ache which I have occasionally experienced from being at theatres and other large rooms lighted with gas ; that is the impres- sion that is produced upon me by it. 119. Have you found the temperature uniform in the House, or have you experienced a variety of temperatures ? — I have constantly felt considerable draughts coming in near The Speaker's chair. 120. Do you generally sit in nearly the same place?— Pretty nearly, not far from The Speaker's chair, and I have generally felt a considerable draught coming in from that quarter. 121. About which row do you sit ?—I do not sit in one row, more commonly than in another. 122. Lord J. Manners.'] Have you suffered as much from the gas since the chandeliers have been raised as before?-— I think I suffered more last Friday night than at any other time, and I ascribe it to the gas. 123. Sir Colonel _F. Romilly,
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