The Archive · 1925

Keep the Windows Open

Proper ventilation is most important in connexion with the trans mission and spread of respiratory diseases. The first and foremost Beand-xear should be lights topes ave usually se of them are much five ounces which is the ideal weight. A lining fof red or orange-coloured silk will fent off the actinic rays of the sury, condition to be avoided in regulating which cause sunstroke. the atmosphere is an excessively Exercise should be pleasureable high temperature. Overheated rooms and short of fatigue, and when are far more serious their effect fon human health than has been possible taken in the open-air in the cool of the early morning or even-generally realized, and the temperature of living rooms should not be allowed to exceed 68° F. The feet should be warm and the head cool and the right thing to aim at is to keep our rooms as cool as pos: sible with the greatest amount of moving air that can be borne with ing.

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