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THE question of ventilation is demanding special attention as the warm weather approaches. Mr. A. Peel's article on “War-Time Ventilation”, published in the Electrical Timesof April 18, is therefore a timely one. Special attention has to be paid to factories, mills, offices, etc., where a large number of people occupy one enclosure. It is an annual problem the solution of which in peace time is not always adopted as soon as it should be. Now certain factors due entirely to the War have greatly aggravated the working conditions in many factories and sometimes added very definite causes of bad ventilation. So far as ‘black-out’ is concerned, the Government insists that the obscuration must be complete. Whatever form this takes, the blacking-out process is responsible for a marked deterioration compared with the natural ventilation existing before the black-out. Many firms who were obliged hurriedly to arrange their, black-out schemes and did so by painting windows or sealing them up by fitting wooden or metal shutters, or in other semi-permanent ways, have already had to strip this material away from windows. This has been necessary in order to get back to something like normal operating conditions as an alternative to serious labour trouble on account of high sickness rates, due to continuous working in artificial light and with poor ventilation.
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War-Time Ventilation Problems. Nature 145, 737 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145737b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145737b0