Directions for living and sleeping in the open air / by Thomas Spees Carrington.

  • Carrington, Thomas Spees.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Directions for living and sleeping in the open air / by Thomas Spees Carrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    HOW TO PROVIDE A SHELTER FOR THE SUMMER AND FOR HOT COUNTRIES. Consumptives need a good shelter in tropical countries and protection during the summer months in northern climates. A porch should be placed on the side of the house where the direct rays of the sun will not strike it during the middle of the day, and tents or shacks placed under shade-trees or in the shadow^ of large buildings. Awnings which jut out from the roof of a porch or shack are used for shade, and Japanese drop curtains made of long strips of bamboo for privacy, as they do not stop the current of air. In places w^here the streets are not watered, a hose should be used to lay the dust in front of the house, and the floor of the porch or shack sprinkled once or tw^ice each day to cool the surrounding air. The open sides of the shelter must be screened from the floor to the roof with wire netting as a protection from flies and mosquitoes, and when this is impossible, a mos- quito-bar made of cheese-cloth, netting or scrim should be hung from the roof or laid over barrel-hoops attached to the head and foot of the bedstead. Showing a cheap method of protcoimu i slcepinn porch in hot weather with W-nctian blinds. Loaned by the .1. Ci. NX'iKon .Mff. Co., New York. IS