Fresh air and how to use it / by Thomas Spees Carrington.

  • Carrington, Thomas Spees.
Date:
1912
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fresh air and how to use it / by Thomas Spees Carrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    PAGE Chapter V.—Temporary Fresh-air Porches for Country Use 67 Sheltered Positions for Porches; Suggestions for Constructing Porches; Cost of Temporary Porches; Materials and Construction of Dr. Carey's Porch. Chapter VI.—^Permanent Sleeping Porches and Loggias for Country Homes 81 Situation and Protection; The Relation of the Porch to the House; Treatment of Floors; Converting a Corner Room into a Loggia; A Fresh-air Room Protected by Glazed Sash; An Example of an Inex- pensive Sleeping Porch; A Permanent Open Room over a Front Entrance; An Open Sitting-room and Sleeping Porch on the End of a House; Two Open Rooms in a Wing at the Rear of a House; An Example of a Loggia Placed in an Angle of a Building; An Example of an Enclosed Porch in an Angle of a Building; The Roof of the Summer Kitchen Used as a Site for a Sleeping Porch; Fresh-air Rooms on a Seashore Home. Chapter VII.—Methods of Protecting and Screening Porches 99 Protection for Cold Weather; Glass and Sash; Dr. Paquiri's Al- cove; Protection for Moderately Cold Weather; Canvas Curtains; Protection for Moderate and Warm Weather; Venetian Blinds and Japanese Matting; Cloth Screens; Protection Against Insects; Cloth Netting; Wire Screens. Chapter VIII.—Tents and Tent Houses 119 Tents on City Roofs; The Cost of Tents; The Fisher Tent; The Lapham Lean-to Tent; The Gardner Tent; The Ulrich Tent; The Tucker Tent; Tent Houses; The Biggs Tent House; The Kenyon Tent House; The Metal Screen Tent House; The U. S. M. H. Tent House. [x]