“SOME” THIRST.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3328, 5 November 1919, Page 5

“SOME” THIRST.

Extraordiiiary figures as‘ to the amount of perspiration evaporated and thc,_qnantities of liquid drunk to compensate for it were pro,duce<l at the recent meeting of mining engineers iI1.:Bi1‘II'liI1g1l{1lI1. In England, for instance, it is quite a common thing for perspiration 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. This 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 ob. isorb three or four gallons of liquid a lday. In India, -under conditions nearlly approximately to t.hose—und_er Which. lmany of our Workers laV‘n.olii-1 'i;'¢’.~a3y, ‘expo:-inlent_l;ag shown .-tlie small; est i quantitpyjffifhdfunk ‘ox’ fl‘i’§f'}’,‘iiidividual /was ‘t}‘ll.‘e'e"‘ gallons, or ‘.tll'l._‘li’t.'4_3“,’:§\‘(’i‘:;;“l)()ll'll(3S, ‘while the eai'ly' a.\'rel*agé¥'\V§§j§f駧i'§arlcr: ably higher. -