SALT WATER FOR MINERS.
PREVENTION OF FATIGUE. MINING AT GREAT DEPTHS. PROFESSOR'S INTERESTING ADVICE. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 30. Lecturing before the Institution of Mining Engineers on the effects of high temperatures on miners, Professor Moss advoccted the use of salt to prevent fatigue. It had been proved that the use of salt added 20 per cent to the efficiency of miners working in a heated admospherc. The future of British mining depended upon the ability to mine at great depths. Such mining was impossible unless the effects of high temperatures were overcome. Miners working in hot, dry places drank large quantities of water, which caused cramp and fatigue and clogged the kidneys. To prevent this a solution of salt water (sufficient to balance the loss of salt by perspiration) should be drunk. The lecturer quoted a number of cases of miners being completely cured.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 287, 1 December 1923, Page 7
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