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 A popular science brochure by A.I. Valov is devoted to this very important issue, in which the author gives a number of useful and, what is especially important, easy-to-follow advice.
A person spends most of his life in the house. Naturally, his health depends to a large extent on compliance with the hygiene requirements in the room. Decreased performance, headache, restless sleep are often a direct consequence of poor ventilation of the room, insufficient lighting.
Neither expensive equipment, nor exquisite decorations, but clean air and light are the main advantages of any home.
First of all, you need to take care that nothing interferes with the access of air into the room. It is impractical, for example, to paint walls with oil paint where there is no artificial ventilation. Adhesive painting reduces the natural ventilation of the room by half. The starch used for wallpapering walls reduces ventilation by 18 percent and glue by 75 percent. It is important that the window is of a certain size: the ratio of its area to the floor of the room should be at least 1:50.
Light is equally important. Lack of light affects health, causes a sharp decrease in gas exchange in the body, worsens the blood composition. As you know, the lack of light is especially harmful to the health of children.
Collective farmer's library, A.I. Keep your home and estate clean. Medgiz, 1956, 32 p.
Dirty window panes block up to 70 percent of the light. Dirty light bulbs absorb up to 30 percent of their rays. A smoked ceiling reduces the room's illumination by one third, and dirty walls reflect half as much light as clean ones.
In order to have light in the apartment, it is necessary, therefore, to constantly take care of the cleanliness of window panes, electric bulbs, walls and ceilings. In the summer it is necessary to wash the window panes, and in the winter to protect them from icing. You should not make windows with high colors that darken the room.
Gloomy wall decoration should be avoided. It is useful to remember that blue and violet colors have a depressing effect on the nervous system, red color - exciting, green - soothing, green and yellow colors less tired eyes than others.
The brochure tells about how to keep your clothes, home, water, food and utensils in order, how to deal with insects and rodents - spreading infectious diseases.
It is necessary to systematically wet clean the entire room and home environment, wash the floors with hot water and soap and soda, wipe walls and ceilings, wash stairs, be sure to wash dishes with hot water and soda.
The author gives an approximate layout of the personal plot. A clean courtyard should separate the residential building from the livestock buildings. Behind the farmyard, sites for manure, compost and a latrine should be arranged, and then a place for a vegetable garden should be set aside. It is recommended to plant fruit trees on a vacant plot of land. Lavatories, cesspools and dung heaps should be located in places that lie lower than the residential building.
Undoubtedly, personal hygiene is not a private affair of each of us, but is inextricably linked with the entire health care system of Soviet people.
Improving the living conditions of the working people is the programmatic demand of our Party. During the years of Soviet power, our cities, workers' settlements and collective farm villages have changed beyond recognition. The 20th Congress of the CPSU recognized the need to seriously improve and significantly expand housing construction. Thousands of houses are being built in cities, workers' settlements and rural areas.
Our dwellings - old and new - should be clean, light and comfortable.
Professor S. M. DANYUSHEVSKY, magazine "Health", 1957
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