Wholesome Houses, an Exposition of the Banner System of Sanitation (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...as is wanted, and draws hot and vitiated air from the various nooks and corners which generally remain entirely tinventilated aud impart to the carriage a stuffy and most unwholesome smell. Though the air on our underground lines is very bad, it is at least better than that to be found in what really at present are unventilated carriages, each crowded with passengers, and heated to boiling point inside, by four or more gas burners or lamps, with all floors and windows closed. Mr. Banner's system can be adapted to the existing car'iages at a very small cost, a great consideration to railway companies, who are often deterred from adopting new inventions by the loss that would accrue through discarding a quantity of existing stock. Indeed, the system is so cheap that its adoption on an extensive scale would entail comparatively very little expense, while the comfort to the passenger from a good system of ventilation is almost incalculable, especially in the height of summer when trains are crowded with people, as well as in winter, when the smoker who has his back to the engine asks his opposite neighbour to allow the windows to be down, which, and not unreasonably, he decidedly objects to; and the companies would do well to remember that during hot weather a very large number of people on suburban lines revert to the ancient' knifeboard' of an omnibus, at the cost of a little time, rather than be half suffocated by bad air, and an insufficient supply even of that. "Models of Mr. Banner's invention may be seen at his offices in Billiter Square, E.C., where any particulars regarding the price or application of the system can be readily obtained." I will now draw the attention of my readers to the application of my system to the...