RECORD HEAT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 99, 20 January 1908, Page 7

RECORD HEAT.

» : iBE WOBST SPELi FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BATHING ALL NIGHT LONG. PEOPLE SLEEP OUT. DEATHS FROM HEAT APOPLEXY, "»i lEiiF.anAni— Piir.Bg association—corvniGiiT. Melbourne, January 18. The heat is terrible. The thermometer tnuohed 112 degrees in the .city yesterday. People aro prostrated. Tlioro have been two deaths from heat apoplexy. The .whole State is suffering, Cases of jpoplexy aro reported from all part.?, and tovoral deaths, At Horsham—about midway botweon Melbourne and Adelaide—the thermometer registered 125 degrees. ■ . t ' SUFFERINGS OF ANIMALS. HEAT INCREASING. A BUSY TIME FOR DOCTORS. 1 . ' (Rec. Jan. 19, 5,4. p.m.) Melbourne, January 19. Tho present spell of heat is the, worst es- • penanced for twenty-five 'years,Tho disBom(ort is intensified by a hot north wind, bringing clouds of dust and smoke), from surrounding bush firos. v Houses aro too liot for sleep. Thousands are sleeping on lawns and in gardens'and parks, or are camped on. the seashoro, whore. bathing proceeds throughout tho night. ■ ' Blacksmiths at tho Government workshops fmd tho employees of some private firms have been allowed to ceaso work. The doctors aro having a busy time. There have been numerous oases of heat apoploxy, several people dropping jn tho streets. Yesterday onp man, a driver of a'- brewery cart, succumbed. •Horses arc suffering terribly. Some havq dropped dead. Thoicp companies aro unable to kfep pace with tho demand. . * Country roports show that tho heat is in-, (teasing, There havo been several deaths fiom apoploxy. . There is great, mortality among domestic inimals, fowjs dying in hundreds. ' IN ADELAIDE. TEMPERATURE A RECORD FOR FIFTY YEARS. ' (Rec. Jan. 19, 5.4 p.m.) s. Adelaide, January 19. The thermometer yesterday touched 114 JogreoS. , For the fourth day in succession It has .exceeded 110, which is a record in tho , sity for tho fifty years during which official -figures have been kept. The majority of the people are sleeping out •sfjdoors.