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OMFORT in a heat Strenuous exertion at once wave is the triumph increases this to a pint an hour of the body over the that must be made good by through active sweating-a loss atmosphere in a battle of drinking. Labouring in hot dry the temperatures.
weather therefore calls for the The more we know of how the fluid in the day.
consumption of three gallons of
body controla its temperature
the easier it is to keep well.
Now sweat contains a fair
How To Keep Well
in
a
Heat Wave
The process is very simple. Proportion of salt-clothes be Food acts as fuel to the fire; come stiff with it at the end of exercise increases the draught. this is replaced through the strongly predisposes to
the day in the tropics. Unless
A delicate nerve centre in the
heat stroke, 肆你 opposed to heat-
brain keeps the level in health mouth the amount in the tissues stroke. But a perfectly safe stroke, is rare in this country, and blood becomes deficient. dally ration would be 1% pints light hats ought to be worn in nt exactly 98.4 deg. Fahrenheit,
It is this salt deficiency more of beer-light lager is more direct sunshine. A wide brim however fierce the fire's barn- ing, however hot the surround- than anything else that is res- suitable than the stronger ales and tinted glasses protect the ings. This it does by dilating ponsible for the vague but up down to 3oz. of spirit, accord- eyes from tiring glare, even if THE HONGKONG Government is the skin capillaries, bringing a comfortable symptoms of hot ing to the proportion of alcohol. this is not noticeably trouble-
rejected plans for deep tunnels, large volume of blood into close weather-lassitude, irritability, steci shelters or dispersal of popula-contact with the colder air.
A.R.P. In Hongkong
lon during air raids. The layman who would pronounce upon these
heat.
be restricted. Starches, gugur,
some.
loss of appetite, and muscular Diet, except for the added
Swimming and baths daily aro weakness. It leads also to salt, is much less important When cooling by radiation is decisions is recklessly opinionated. not enough--the air may be kept fatigue of the sweat-glands and than drink. The dulled appetite essential if the skin is to be kept to the makes it unnecessary to advise clear for its work of perspira- For the technical evidence on which too warm by unsuitable clothes weakened resistance
small, light meals. Proteins tion. Judgment worth listening to can be the centre calls upon the sweat
(meat and eggs) and fats only The layer of glands to help.
A prolonged tepid bath, just add fuel to the fires and should below blood-heat (about 80 deg. based is not available to him,
In fact, it is available to no one moisture evaporates and cools except the authorities concerned. the skin, and thus the blood, The authorities are also keeping just as a damp cloth cools a jug strictly to themselves all information and the milk inside it. concerning the effect of high-ex- plosive and incendiaries
the densely populated tenement areas in Hongkong-information which must surely be known to them in the light of experiences in China-und-we can only Imagine what will happen in the
Un
Colony from our own experience in
The effects of evaporation and radiation depend on the relation between the skin and the air. Tight, thick clothing will im-
It is therefore essential to salads and fruit should form the F.) will do more to bring a feel- tako more salt in a heat wave. main bulk of the diet.
ing of coolness than any amount A teaspoonful of salt to two
of iey douches and cold plunges, pints of water-known to doc-
Warnings about that deadly which only constrict the skin tors and nurses as "half-normal trio, germs, flies and dust, are vessels and prevent the
By a Medical
also hardly necessary. Because they abound in hot weather the escaping. risks of infection are much
Correspondent
heat
Sleep during hot weather is. naturally light and disturbed. There is all the more reason,
Canton and elsewhere. We do not prison a layer of hot moist air know what defensive measures have over most of the body, keeping saline"--is by itself perfectly greater, Artificially-fed babies therefore, to have at least eight been taken to ward off air attack, it in an atmosphere a good deal palatable; in fruit drinks it is Clothing must be loose and hours in bed at night, with an whether Hongkong Is to rely ex hotter than our hottest shade unnoticeable. Children in hot light, with wido flapping open- afternoon siesta If practicable. clusively on anti-aircraft guns for its temperatures.
weather are apt to drink so are at their greatest disadvan- The temptation to get up early protection, whether arrangements Moving dry air, whatever Its much water as to cause dinr- tage: the serious summer diar- should be indulged in only at the have been made for the rapid passage temperature, will keep the skin rhorn, easily preventible by rhoea can be avoided only by price of early-to-bed. from Singapore or elsewhere of cool as long as the perspiration giving saline.
Easily planes for our protection; whether is eficient. Even in a cool room
scrupulous cleanliness. This measure alone, with a infected foods such as milk and A hard mattress and a sheet the advice to "stay put" is a dictentlat (60 degrees Fahrenheit) a nor- liberal ration of salt at meals, tinned articles (after opening) will go a long way to making attitude or a genuine belief that the mally clothed person, resting, is enough to make a hot speli should first be heated to boiling sleep easy, especially if pre-
will lose water by "insensible much less unpleasant.
point.
ceded by a good walk and a cool perspiration" at the rate of a
The common idea that alcohol ings, and made of open cellular bath. pint a day.
is especially useful in hot wea- cotton or wool. The red flannel ther and climates has no medical spine-pad is a Victorian super- basis. In fact, att excess stition, but though true sun-
citizen is safer in his home,
Government's decision to spend an additional $1,500,000 on A.R.P, is welcome, and Indicates that much more confidence may be felt than heretofore. But, apart from this
presumably, essential workers? If in certain parts of the Colony for,
these reports are correct, who con- ' stitute "essential workers"?
Government surely knows that GRIN AND BEAR IT
decision, there is title Impressive evidence that A.R.P. is going forward at the rate required by the urgency of the dangers. There are, according to our observations, most serious
Hongkong is buzzing with rumours shortages of vital equipment and
regarding A.R.P. and other defence Lrninu
for
in matters SOIC
the man-power
Colony. Those of the AR.P. services. The rumours arn, we believe, entirely precautions taken against the danger unfounded, but many people genuine-
smoke there'is fre" and that in the event of an emergency, the Colony is to be left to its fate.
of Bre on the authority of Homely believe that where there is Ofee experts in England, it has been stated at one bomber cani start anything from 80 to 100 fires-are stated to be most horrifyingly In- adequate.
an estimate for vehicular, tunnel
No Government of military official will give assurance by cominenting. for publication, on such n dangerous subject defence pulley; sequently the public is left uninform- cd and free to give rein to rumours.
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The "Telegraphi" has repeatedly ideavoured, during the past two or three months, to obtain an interview with a certain authority who would be in a position to give a statement on the defence measures to be adopt- involved in an e in the event of Hongkong being emergency. The efforts have been unsuccessful.
Then there is the problem of deep shelters. As a layman, we cannot profess to any extensive knowledge on the subject and can, in the final summing up, rely only on Covern- ment's announcement that tunnelling is unsuitable for the Colony, because of the time factor Involved in dis- persing civilians from home to tunnels. We understood, however, that Government Indeed called for connecting the city of Victoria with
Some good work has been down in Aberdeen through the Peak, and war informed that the cost would be in dispelling the ignorance at the ordin- nry eltizen of what is expected of him the prohibitive neighbourhood of $40,000,000. This estimate, we be But a random inquiry to the Chinese in emergency save stay in his home, leve, is excesalve,
We have receive and European Inhabitants of ed estimates from two independent streat as to what they would do if inining experts-one placed the, they heard the sirens warning in two maximum cost of such a tunnel at minutes time would show the Gov- $0,000,000: another gave a detailed ernment that its big job of securing estimate of $1,000,000,
informed publle co-operation has We know that, whatever the barely begun. reason, Government has turned down
Outside the wardens and the volun- the polley of deep shelters for the tears actually participating in A.R.P. masses. Why, then, tunnels for cer- activities, not one person in a hundred tuin sections of the community? We knows how to deaf willi on incendiary have no methods of checking up. bomb should it set his own building since it is almost impossible -10 Pafire. obtain information from
any
oficial Until they know all these things, sources, but we have been informed peril remains. Poril, not only of from more than ane source that ignorance, but of pante in an'émer- funnels are indeed being provided geney.
By Lichty stroke and heat-exhaustion. The
"Nope, sho's the star-1 just take character parts!””
The only diseases dúe to heat. that are important are heat-
first is due to bad clothing and over-exertion in bad surround- inge.
B-
The symptoms of heat-stroke are sudden faintness and shock, with paleness, shallow breath- ing, clammy cold skin, and weak fluttering pulse. Tredt- ment is removal to a cool place, brandy by mouth and ammonia (amelling salts) to the nostrils. Free cold douching should be involded.
Heat-exhaustion is due to too little snit and fluids and can. easily be avoided.
Old or 1 people readily fall. victims to any extreme of tem- perature and should be strictly guarded from exertion and |over-heating, staying in a cool,
dark, niry room.
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Once the body's needs understood, therefore,. only.com- mon sense la required.
If it gets too hot oven for that, then the time has come to follow the Rev. Sydney Smith's example, who found the heat no [dreadful that there was nothing: left for it but to take off his flesh and sit in his bones,