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Long Room headache is a thing of the past. The clerks 

 declare that they do not feel the prostration which was 

 formerly the result of a day spent in a foul atmosphere, but 

 they leave their work as fresh as when they commenced in 



the morning We are in a position to testify 



from personal experience to the great benefits derived by 

 the application of Messrs. Boyle & Son's system of ventila- 

 tion to the Long Room. Messrs. Boyle are to be con- 

 gratulated upon having successfully grappled with a grave 

 difficulty, which had almost become a public scandal." 

 Civilian, 19th March, 1881 (accredited organ of the Civil 

 Service). 



" It is very many years ago since we first drew attention 

 to the very defective state of the ventilation of the Custom 



House, and particularly of the Long Room 



Experiments have been tried from time to time with more 

 or less success, and various schemes have been proposed, but 

 it has been reserved for Messrs. Robert Boyle <fe Son, the 

 well-known ventilating engineers, of London and Glasgow, 

 to solve satisfactorily what was undoubtedly a difficult 

 problem how to effectively ventilate the Custom House, or 



rather the Long Room there The Long Room 



now is thoroughly ventilated, and we are glad to receive 

 both written and oral testimony to the efficient manner in 

 which it has been done, and also how greatly the comfort 



