SOME THIRST.
Extraordinary figures as to the amount of perspiration evaporated and the quantities of liquid drink to compensate for it were produced at the recent meeting of mining engineers in Birmingham, In England, for instance, it us. quite a common thing for pen spi ration to be produced in an individual at the rate of two pounds—approximately one-fifth of a gallon—per hour, figures which one can only appreciate when one has seen the dripping bodies of such workers, as those of the gas plants, glass houses, and blast furnaces. Ths evaporation must, of course, be balanced by drinking, says the "Birmingham Post,” and it is no uncommon thing for people working under such conditions to absorb three or four gallons of liquid a day. In India, under conditions nearly approximating to those under which many of our workers labour, to-day, experiment has shown that, the smallest quantity drunk by the individual was three gallons, or thirty pounds, while the daily average was considerably higher.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 19 November 1919, Page 4
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165SOME THIRST. Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 19 November 1919, Page 4
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