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Journal of Hygiene

Table of Contents - 1949 - Volume 47, Issue 01  

Research Article

The measurement of domestic ventilation: An experimental and theoretical investigation with particular reference to the use of carbon dioxide as a tracer substance*†

E. T. Renbourna1, T. C. Angusa1, J. McK. Ellisona1, L. M. Crotona1 and Merlin Stephens Jonesa2

a1 All of the Department of Applied Physiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

a2 Chief Scientific Adviser's Division of the Ministry of Works

The post-war need for large numbers of dwellings has promoted renewed inquiry into the basic criteria by which good practice in the design and construction of buildings may be judged. More emphasis than ever before is now being put upon the functional characteristics of buildings regarded as living-spaces rather than as structures.

Footnotes

* The investigations recorded in this paper have been carried out by the Department of Applied Physiology of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine under the direction of Prof. G. P. Crowden as part of an extra-mural research contract with the Chief Scientific Adviser's Division of the Ministry of Works for the study of housing requirements for comfort and health.

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