Ventilation of Small Houses

Abstract

I HAVE been much interested in the reports of the Sanitary Institute. May I call attention to the fact that the majority of the smaller houses in our large towns have no means of ventilation except through the rooms. There are no ventilators or staircase windows, and the back house door opens into the kitchen. In a three-storied house the staircase is fit by the fanlight over the front door and a skylight in the roof, neither of which opens; this arrangement gives little enough light and no air. Can it be healthy? Ought it to be? It is at least most disagreeable.