NO. I AIR AND TUBERCULOSIS HINSDALE IO9 



OPEN AIR CHAPELS AND THEATRES 



It is remarkable how inconsistent we all are in matters of hygiene. 

 Medical men are often among the worst ofifenders. Their offices 

 are commonly stufify, their conventions and social gatherings are 

 often held in inadequate halls in which vitiated air, sometimes reek- 

 ing with smoke, is perfectly abominable. 



If to do were as easy as to know what 'twere well to do 

 Then chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' 

 palaces. 



We cannot go back to the time of the Druids or worship in 

 groves after the manner of the Greeks, but it seems fitting here to 

 call attention to one chapel that has been specially constructed for 

 out-of-door worship and that is destined to be a model for many a 

 sanatorium at least. This has been constructed for the famous 

 King Edward VII Sanatorium near Midhurst, in Sussex, England. 

 The accompanying illustration of this unique chapel marks a step in 

 advance in sanatorium construction. It is in the Moorish style, 

 shaped like a broad letter V. The double rows of coluinns of the 

 cloister are on the southerly side, the pulpit and chancel are in the 

 apex and the northerly sides forming the inner walls are provided 

 with arched apertures so that the patients may sit absolutely in tjie 

 open air but with sufficient protection from the weather at all seasons. 

 In fair weather services are held under the sky in the open space 

 in front of the building between its extended arms. The illustra- 

 tion shows this very beautifully. 



Open air theatres were built by the Greeks and Romans and the 

 remains of these structures are among the most interesting of ancient 

 ruins. In Europe the Passion Play at Bayreuth is enacted wholly out 

 of doors, but is entirely apart from our subject except so far as it 

 demonstrates the possibilities of out-of-door representation. The 

 low theatre and concert hall are invariably hot and stuffy and un- 

 doubtedly foster tuberculosis by inadequate ventilation. It would be 

 better if we could have some theatres or assembly halls with per- 

 fectly free circulation of air. 



The Groton School in Connecticut has lately undertaken to build 

 an outdoor gymnasium, so that the boys shall have the advantage of 

 exercise in the open air rather than in an enclosed building. This is 

 the first school we know of to adopt this admirable plan. 



VENTILATION OF DWELLINGS 



Ordinary dwellings are terribly deficient as regards ventilation. 

 The country dwellings of the poor are strangely defective in this 



