"Ticketed houses" of Glasgow, with an interrogation of the facts for guidance towards the amelioration of the lives of their occupants / by James B. Russell.

  • Russell, James B.
Date:
1888
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Credit: "Ticketed houses" of Glasgow, with an interrogation of the facts for guidance towards the amelioration of the lives of their occupants / by James B. Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or specific disease in the large houses ; but, taking the death-rate in the medium-sized houses as unity, the death-rate from these (1) Zymotic Diseases. (2) Nervous and other Diseases special to Children. (3) Accidents and Syphilis in Children. (4) Diseases of the Lungs. (5) Miscellaneous. upon these facts by a paper which appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London for 1887, on “The Carbonic Acid, Organic Matter, and Micro-Organisms in Air, more especially of Dwellings and Schools,” by Professor Carnelley and Drs. Haldane and Anderson. We might safely interpret our figures on general principles as well as from the observations made by the senses of those who are familiar with the comparative cubic space and the prevalent atmospheric conditions of a large proportion of our small houses, that the prevalence of zymotic and pulmonary diseases was causally connected therewith; but precise scientific observation and ascertainment of physical facts are always welcome, and these we have in this paper. “ Taking the average quantity (in excess of outside air) of carbonic acid, organic matter, and micro-organ- isms, respectively, in houses of four or more rooms as unity, then in one- and two-roomed houses ” the following table shows the results of chemical analysis and the application of Hesse’s method