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The Sheringham Ventilator, 1849
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A-Section of Wall
B-Section of Ventilator
C-Ceiling
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height to the top of the walls; the roof was sloping. In this shed
were thrust sixtyseven children. The epidemic influence was abroad.
Here was a hotbed prepared for its development. The workhouse was attacked
and in a week sixty of the inmates were no more. It was in the girls'
school that the mortality prevailed-- why should not the boys' school
have equally felt the scourge? Simply because the boys could not be
kept from breaking the windows."
Sheringham's invention, based upon the simplest
principle and cheap both to buy and to install was welcomed not only by
the medical profession but also by the public. Hayward Brothers lost no
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