DEEP-LEVEL MINING.
SALT A CURE FOR FATIGUE. (ar CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIiTIOH—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, November 30. Lecturing before the Institute of Mining Engineers on the effects of high temperatures on miners, Professor Moss advocated the use of salt to prevent fatigue. It has been proved, he said, that the. use of salt added 20 per cent to the efficiency of miners working in a heated atmosphere. 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. The millers working in hot and 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 bo drunk. The lecturer quoted a number of cases of miners being completely cured by this meaps.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 9
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