1408- Staff Health Problems

Olin looked levelly at Mike Enslin.
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[“]The power of whatever inhabits the room seems to be less around midday,
which is when the room-turns always occur, and yet I know of several
maids who have turned that room who now suffer from heart prob-
lems, emphysema, diabetes. There was a heating problem on that
floor three years ago, and Mr. Neal, the head maintenance engineer
at that time, had to go into several of the rooms to check the heating
units. 1408 was one of them. He seemed fine then—both in the room
and later on—but he died the following afternoon of a massive cere-
bral hemorrhage.”

- 1408, chapter I