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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. T. Renbourn
Affiliation:
All of the Department of Applied Physiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
T. C. Angus
Affiliation:
All of the Department of Applied Physiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
J. McK. Ellison
Affiliation:
All of the Department of Applied Physiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
L. M. Croton
Affiliation:
All of the Department of Applied Physiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Merlin Stephens Jones
Affiliation:
Chief Scientific Adviser's Division of the Ministry of Works
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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.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1949

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