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Show HIGH TEMPERATURE. How It Affect, "t7alItjrof CUIeg SufTerinsr from Sunstroke It will not now be difficult to uD. derstand m what manner high temner a ture affects the public health of ""i cities. Evidently in the direct action o heat upon the human body we hav the most powerful agency in the pro. duct.on of our great summer mortal ity. While sunstroke represents ttu maximum direct effect of solar hea, upon the human subject, the large In crease of deaths from wasting chr'oni, diseases and diarrhoea! affections oi children under one year of age' anc persons upward of 70 years of age shows the terrible effects of the nre, vailing intense heat of summer udoj all who are debUitated by disease 01 age and thereby have their "heat-r-e ulatlng power" diminished. The faci has been established by repeated experiment ex-periment that when solar or artificia5 heat is continually applied to the animal ani-mal the temperature of its body wil' gradually rise until all of the com pensating or heat-regulating agencie! fall to preserve the equilibrium and the temperature reaches a point at which death takes place from actua-combustion. actua-combustion. In general, a tempera ture of 107 degrees F. in man would be regarded as indicating an unfavora ble termination of any disease iu persons suffering from sunstroke (he temperature often ranges from 106 de grees F. to 110 degrees P., the highei temperature appearing just before fatal termination. Popular Science Monthly. |