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

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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$D. B. Reid, wish to inquire as to the complaints made of the ventilation Esq., m. d. 0£ t|ie House, and the best mode of remedying them ?—In 25~March tms case ^ w*sn nothing but to explain specifically how I 1852. stand with respect to these immediate questions to which the Committee are now restricting their inquiry, in order that my answers may be understood. I think it is impos- sible, under the peculiar position in which I stand, without stating in what manner I have received those plans, and am acting at present, that the Committee can put a right inter- pretation upon my answers. 168. Will you explain to the Committee what portion of the building is now under your superintendence and direc- tion ?—The portion of the building which commences with the south side of the House lobby and terminates at the corridor between The Speaker's rooms and the Cabinet rooms ; that is, the corridor behind the chair. 169. That is, the House, the entire of the division lobbies, the rooms behind The Speaker's chair, and the Vote Office r —Part of it. 770. And the House lobby ?—Yes. 171. And the Post Office?—The Post Office is included in all the drawings, but the smoke flue has not been carried into my flues, nor that from the door-keeper's room ; the register of rooms includes every one in the angles of the lobb}r. 172. Have the goodness to specify by name the spaces which you ventilate ?—The House,the surrounding corridors, the Cabinet rooms, the strangers' room, the House lobby, and the four rooms in the angle, but some of those flues, shown to be carried into the part appropriated to me, are, in their present state, in Sir Charles Barry's hands. 173. Mr. Drummond.'] Have you the entrance to the cloisters from the House lobby ?—No. 174. Or the entrance from the Library corridor to the House lobby ?—'No, neither of those. 175. Chairman.'] Is the corridor behind The Speaker's chair ventilated by you ?—No, there is a small communica- tion connected with my air chambers, but practically it is not under my direction. 176. Nor any portion of the building to the north of that? —Not a single portion. 177. Mr. Drummond.~\ Js the passage to the Librarian's house and Sir Denis Le Marchant's house under your direction ?—No. 178. Chairman^ Are the four rooms at the four angles of the$