Lying-in women (maternity) & the ‘offensively’ sick: 1,200 cubic feet (34m3 ≈ 14m2 floor area)
(source: Healthy Houses, 1876)
& it gets better
..the book was written by William Eassie, “late assistant engineer to Renkioi Hospital during the Crimean War”
Renkioi Hospital (1855) was a prefabricated hospital, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with “the necessities of hygiene: sanitation, ventilation, drainage & temperature controls.. integrated in 1,000-patient hospital layout, using 60 of the unit wards” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renkioi_H…
& it happened due to the advocacy of “the splendid spinster” Florence Nightingale who reformed hospital practices & conditions (including ventilation to prevent disease spread) cpb-ca-c1.wpmucdn.com/sites.uoguelph…
who said that “If infection exists it is preventable. If it exists it is the result of carelessness, or of ignorance”
& Florence Nightingale designed windows to ventilate rooms without draughts.. & hospitals with adequate space & ventilation for public health scientificamerican.com/article/what-f…
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😷 Can you turn your surgical mask into a well-fitting mask? YES with a « mask brace » & free template to make one (see elastic band hack in next tweet)
“optimist in me hopes that when we have had widespread infection in 5-12 year olds —which has already happened— then there aren’t any more.. they’ll have partial immunity for 6-8 weeks.. 1/ @SamuelMcConkey1@SarahAMcInerney
“..natural infection doesn’t protect you for very long”
Children are not protected from disease by infecting them ~with the disease~
So, he’s not talking about protecting children..he’s talking about an unethical & unsafe experiment to ~infect children~ for benefit of adults 2/
*this is in clear breach of children’s human rights to state protection from epidemic & endemic disease 3/
So Dr @ClionaNi was right..
“I would probably bet that most kids in Ireland under 12 will get Covid before the spring, the way we are going on now” (12 Sept)
Urgent action is needed to protect children & to stop spread in schools
‘Most children under the age of 12 in Ireland will contract Covid-19 by early 2022, unless schools are made safer – infectious disease specialist’ independent.ie/irish-news/hea…
Ireland is following a flawed, unsafe & immoral UK political strategy of not protecting children (in breach of their human rights, & with #NoConsent from their parents)