Ventilation

Abstract

SOME years ago an investigation into the subject of ventilation was started by a former governor of the State of New York. The work of many years' duration of the commission appointed was rendered possible by the beneficence of Mrs. E. M. Anderson, who had been impressed with the fact that poor ventilation was general in public buildings and especially in public schools. The chairman of the commission was Prof. C. E. A. Winslow, professor of public health at Yale, with whom were associated experts in engineering, medicine, chemistry, and educational psychology respectively. The result is a handsome quarto volume of 620 pages, admirably illustrated by diagrams and curves; and with a complete statement of experimental data on which conclusions have been based, there is given an exhaustive account of every aspect of the problem of ventilation.

Ventilation.

Report of the New York State Commission on Ventilation, appointed by the Governor of the State of New York at the Request of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, and Supported by the Milbank Memorial Fund established and endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson. Pp. xxviii + 620. (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1923.) 15 dollars.