OF THE SALUBRITY OF WARM ROOMS. 



IT is a question often discussed in this country^ 

 whether living in a warm room in winter be or 

 be not detrimental to health ? 



There is no doubt whatever of the necessity of pure 

 air for the support of life and health ; but I really 

 do believe that erroneous opinions are entertained by 

 many people in this island respecting the effects of 

 that equal and at the same time moderate heat which 

 can only be obtained in rooms where strong currents 

 of air up the chimney are not permitted. Those who 

 have been used to living in large apartments, in which 

 the large fires that are kept up, instead of making the 

 rooms equally warm, do little more than increase 

 the violence of those streams of cold air which come 

 whistling in through every crevice of the doors and 

 windows, when such persons come into a room in 

 which an equal and genial warmth prevails in every 

 part, struck with the novelty of the sensation that this 

 general warmth produces, they are very apt to fancy 

 that the air is c/ose, and consequently that it must be 

 unwholesome, and are uneasy until a door or a window 

 be opened in order that they may get what they call 

 fresh air. 



But they do not seem to make a proper distinction 

 between fresh air and pure air. When they call for 

 fresh air,- they doubtless mean purer air. They cer- 



