Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden.

  • Theophil Mitchell Prudden
Date:
[1890]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I purpose then to show the difference of conditions which prevail, in-doors and out, and the significance of these conditions in the problems of ventilation and cleanliness. I shall then give the results of a series of studies of the atmospheric micro-organisms in various places, and consider the relationship of these aerial germs to some common forms of disease. Finally, I shall suggest some of the measures which must be adopted, both by the public au- thorities and private persons, if both out-of- doors and in-doors we are to have the privi- lege of breathing clean and wholesome air. I shall not, except incidentally, touch upon the ordinary problems of ventilation or the numer- ous ways in which by the accumulation of the products of respiration and exhalation the air of inhabited rooms may become an active source of discomfort and ill-health, because the means by which these evils may be avoided are well known and are fully explained under the heading of ventilation in text-books and treatises on hygiene.
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