A HEAT WAVE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1930, Page 5

A HEAT WAVE

LONDON’S HEAT WAVE. ;> } j ‘ ' •: Press Association —By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.] (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 27. . ! ;i As a result of the heat wave a iiVunber of deaths have been reported. There are jpathing queues all day long ‘iii the Serpentine. The tem"perature at 9 o’clock to-night was eighty-two. “ CAUSES 16 DEATHS. ’ (Received this day at 12.25. p.m.' LONDON, Aug. 28. “A continuance of the heat wave is giving dress reform a great impetus. Waistcoats have practically disappeared in 'London while many office workers are wearing open necked shirts and girls are going without stockings, some factories, where girls only are employed, even allowing them to week in bathing costumes. The police on traffic duty, have discarded coats and naked urchins invade the.; fountains in Trafalgar Square until chased l out by the police. Sixteen deaths from heat have been reported to-day, including an elderly man who suffered sun stroke while attending his brother’s funeral, “The temperature in London Was 94.

HEAT WAVE CONTINUES. LONDON, August 28. The heat wave continues. The shade temperature in London at 3 o’clock this afternoon was 92 degrees F., the same as yesterday. Six people died to-day from the heat, and from all parts of the country comes news of men and women collapsing and fainting in the sun! scorched streets. >! v: r A HOT TIME. : ! LONDON, August 28. To-day was the highest temperature in London for nineteen years. Many bus drivers have discarded coats and are driving in their shirt sleeves. “here are hundreds of instances of people fainting in tho streets, factories and offices. At Southampton, a coroner sat in C<&irt without a coat, and invited all others to do the same. Rollers at the printing works in Leicester were so hot that it was impossible to continue.

In many narrow East End London streets, it was impossible to sleep. Scores left their stuffy tenements and slept in chairs on the pavements.

' HEAT RECORD IN PARIS

PARIS, August 23.

France is. also suffering an extraordinary heat wave. The temper* atim. l ’. in , Paris is 100,. which is the hottest experienced in late August, since 1870,

Numerous cases of collapse are '’cported in Loire region where the temperature was 122 degrees, Paris Ipoljce were granted special permission to return to their stations hourly for refreshing drinks.