HYGIENE OF RESPIRATION AND VENTILATION 175 



QUESTIONS 



1. How many cubic feet of air is there for each person in your 

 schoolroom ? in the Hving room or dining room at home ? 



2. Why is a kitchen at 70° F. Hkely to be more uncomfortable than 

 a sitting room at the same temperature ? 



3. How does stirring up the air add to the comfort ? 



4. How does fanning help to keep cool ? 



5. What are the disadvantages of stirring up the air ? 



6. What is the difference between suffocation and drowning ? What 

 difference should there be in the treatment ? 



7. What is the difference between suffocating by carbon dioxid and 

 suffocating by carbon monoxid ? 



8. Why should the Bureau of Mines be concerned with resuscitation ? 



9. What other pubhc agencies are concerned with reviving drowned 

 or suffocated persons ? 



10. What public agencies are concerned with keeping air properly 

 ventilated in pubhc places ? 



REFERENCE READINGS 



Hough and Sedgwick. The Human Mechanism, chap, xxix, Ventilation; 

 PP- 397-398, 402-404, 405-406. 



Fisher and Fisk. How to Live, pp. 7-14. 



Pubhc Health Reprint 753, Adenoids. 



Pubhc Health Reprint 854, Effects of High Temperatures and Humid- 

 ities on Body Temperature and Pulse Rate. 



Supplement 2, Public Health Reports. Indoor Tropics. 



Pubhc Health Reprint 728, Treatment of Carbon-Monoxid Poisoning. 



United States Bureau of Mines. Technical Paper 82, Oxygen Mine 

 Rescue Apparatus and Effects on Users. 



