HUMAN RESISTANCE TEST
BEISBANE, June 10. In the conclucling day of the heat and humidity tests, conducted hy Brishane University to determine human resistance in the tropics, only one of four students endured 1\ hours at a temperature of 110 degrees and 58 per cent. humidity. The tests also determined that human resistance was considerahly higher than that of animals. Cows used in the eariier tests reached the limit of endurance at lower temperatures.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1946, Page 5
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