THE PEAR OF COLD

Shannon News, 8 June 1926, Page 3

THE PEAR OF COLD

Warning against the dangers of" excessive heating of dwelling's and factories was given in an address recently by Dr. Leonard Hill, director of the Department of Applied Physiology at the National Institute of Medical Research . He said people were traditionally brought up to fear cold, but few had the knowledge to fear' over-heating and the danger of stagnant air. That danger, it was generally thought, arose from chemical impurity of the air, but every physiologist knew that that had nothing to do with the matter at all. The injury which resulted from stagnant warm air arose from the strain which It put upon the body—upon the heat regulating power of the body and the evaporative power of 4he body. Infection had not occurred in the trenches in the GreaJt War, when the men were exposed to the most bitter inclemency of the weather. Pew pneumonias and colds had ever oc- , curred at the front. They had occrrred in the cities when our sailors and soldiers returned to crowded, stuffy rooms. Children in sanatoria exposed to the open air had a heat production i in the winter nearly twice that of an ordinary child.. There was a risk of reducing the vigour of the English race by over-confinement in heated rooms and by an excessive fear of cold.