1924

Gas geyser warning

Recently, the Bristol medical officer of health directed attention to the danger of using gas geysers in bathrooms which were not ventilated. He strongly recommended some means of ventilation.

As a number of geysers are in use in Galway, it may be reasonable to issue a warning that they should not be installed in a bathroom which is not properly ventilated.

In England there have been a considerable number of fatalities resulting from poisoning by carbon-monoxide through windows being closed while persons were having a bath.

Though no trouble has arisen in Ireland through the installation of geysers, danger always exists. Fatal results may follow if they are placed in a badly ventilated room. Those who are contemplating their installation and those who already use them are advised to consider the importance of proper ventilation.

At an inquest across-Channel, the coroner declared that it was a great source of danger to have a geyser installed without a vent, and expressed the hope that people would be warned to have ventilation provided.

Pictured: Some of the extensive damage following a storm in Galway in January 1974. Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by the ‘weather bomb’ which was described as the ‘worst since Hurricane Debbie in 1961’.