ABSTRACT
Early in the nineteenth century, small private gas works were built to light the mills and factories of part of industrial Britain. Fitting-up gas-lights in a house, and lighting a house with gas, have not precisely the same meaning. The suitable distribution, and the proper kinds, sizes, and forms of fittings and burners for servants’ apartments, passages, stairs, and bed-rooms, require careful consideration. Now for a few words about the impurities mixed with the air of our dwellings, whence their origin, and what are their properties and effects. Drains and other causes of unpleasant effluvia, at the lower parts of the house, must be left out. The compensating influences, in spite of us, keep steadily at work. Every chink and crevice in floors, behind skirtings, and around doors and windows, are conduits for fresh air.
