SWELTERING FOR SCIENCE
railSBANE, .Innc 7. Wh'lt' Br.she ,-e sh. '.mrcd tn a cold westerly v/iud, fc-ur human gainoa pigs, tiuee obseivers and i'onr eows swelterou Jt> a hot chambnr in the Umversny ia-'iorat^ry in tho paiise oi .sciencp and trop-cal iiving. Today was fourtccnth of a 15dav test, and t'v- men were being sulijoetM to 0 it inpevature of 110 degrees wira 53 per cent. humidity. Tbey aro paid 'i.» shillings daily for tlie priviiego oi iosing up to 2.2 pounds 01 v/eigiit per hour for seven hours oach day. Their average loss in weighi has boen one pound per liour ovr.r vavyliig conditions of higli temperatures and humidity.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1946, Page 5
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