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THE New York State Commission on Ventilation has issued an outline statement of the work done in 1915. In the first report the Commission supported the view of the English physiologists, that the principal factors which make for comfort are temperature humidity and air movement, and that the effects of poor ventilation cannot be explained by the presence of volatile organic poisons in the air or any chemical change in the atmosphere. Even slight differences in temperature produce characteristic physiological responses in the body, affecting the output of physical work and likewise the inclination to do mental work. βIn only one respect did the chemical quality of the air breathed show any characteristic effect on the body mechanism, this effect appearing in the slightly diminished appetite for food in a state, unventilated atmosphere.β
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HILL, L. Ventilation and Metabolism . Nature 97, 491 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097491a0
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