90 ''A HURRICANE IN THE HOUSE." 



the same frank, liberal, and courageous spirit displayed by 

 their colonial contemporaries, the cause of sanitary science 

 would advance as far in one month as it now does in twelve. 

 The House of Parliament in Melbourne is ventilated with 

 Mr. Boyle's system after the failure of several costly plans, 

 another convincing proof that wherever mechanical appli- 

 ances are used requiring attention, failure is the inevitable 

 result. Indeed the whole secret of the uniform success of 

 Mr. Boyle's system is to be found in the fact "that it is 

 perfectly self-acting, requires no attention, has no movable 

 parts, and cannot get out of order essentials without which, 

 all experience has proved, no system of ventilation can ever 

 be permanently successful. On the completion of the work 

 at the Parliament House, and after the first sitting of the 

 session, the Melbourne Punch, a publication which might 

 compare favourably with its London contemporary, devoted 

 the leading cartoon to a delineation of the power of the 

 Air-Pump Ventilators. It was entitled "A Hurricane in the 

 House," and represented the extracting power of the venti- 

 lators as being so great as to draw up every loose article 

 in the building hats, umbrellas, papers, quill-pens, ink 

 bottles, the speaker's and other officials' wigs even, flying in 

 the air. The cartoon in the next issue represented the Right 

 Honourable Mr. Woods, Minister of Public Works and 

 Railways (his politics were not in harmony with Punch's), 



