The dwelling house / by George Vivian Poore.

  • Poore G. V. (George Vivian), 1843-1904.
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The dwelling house / by George Vivian Poore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Living-rooms A few words may be said as to living-rooms. Most living-rooms in better-class houses are too bigb. This is ])robably due to the bad example of London, In London the height of a house is the only dimension in which there is, so to say, the least elasticity, and London archi- tects have attempted to compensate by height for absolutely inadequate area. The rooms of some of the learned societies at Burlington House, with a space of several feet between the top of the window and the ceiling, afford excellent illustrations of the point which is to he avoided. Whulou a should extend in u'ithin a few inches of the eeiliiuj, and should oi)en at the top. This is universally admitted. If the room he 12 feet or 13 feet high, and the windows go to the top, then the window becomes unmanageable, from its weight, and the opening of the top, although theoretically possible, is seldom put in practice. The wholesomeness of a room depends very much upon the rapidity with which the air in it can he renewed—the facility, in short, with which one can give it a blow out. This depends upon the relation of window area to cubic capacity. Windows, again, should he so constructed that they can he easily manipulated by a child. The louvre window ventilator, such as is common in churches, will he found very valuable for the admission of a constant hut relatively small supply of air. These ventilators were introduced by the late Professor .John ]\Iarshall into his wards at University College Hospital, and with the very best results. Belatively low rooms, with big mullioned windows going to within a few inches of the ceiling, are far more wholesome than lofty rooms in which the tops of the walls
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