Fresh Air

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 16, 1916

WHILE fresh air is essential to health, there are comparatively few who really know what fresh air is. Most people seem to think that only outdoor air can be fresh, no matter if there is a good ventilating system in operation in a building.

In the April number of Life and Health, Dr. John Lovett Morse, professor of diseases of children in the Harvard Medical School, defines fresh air as being that which is cool, dry, and in motion, free from bacteria, dust, and smoke. He takes issue with the claim that breathing charges it with poisonous organic constituents, especially when the temperature is low and the air is in motion. It is claimed that cold air has no advantage over cool air in the treatment of respiratory tract diseases, there being no more oxygen in cold air than in warm air.

Dr. Morse's article on fresh air in the April number of Life and Health is worthy of close study. If he is right in his conclusions, the sleeping-porch idea will lose some of its present popularity in the near future. Read Life and Health, and keep up with the times.