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 more than two or three hours at a time. The systems which may be employed for mechanical ventilation are numerous and varied, but they all embody the use of fans of one kind or another for forcing the air into the rooms, or exhausting it, or both, with proper provision for heating the incoming air in cold weather, and some one of the three heating systems is frequently, if not generally, employed in connection with a system of mechanical ventilation.