CHEAP THERMOMETERS
♦ . 1 Enquiries were received lately by H.M. Trade Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr. W. G. Wickham) as to ' whether cheap lines of thermometers, previously imported from Germany, ; could be supplied by English firms. The : position is that British manufacturers do not care to sell these cheap lines, for the reason that' their price does not admit of their being tested (the fee for testing at Kew Observatory is 18s a dozen), and they are therefore unreliable. Many of the thermometers which haye 1 been sold in New Zealand for dairy and clinical purposes' at low prices hitherto must come under this heading. In a report last year, Dr. J. Court, of Stavelejr^ Chesterfield, stated that most of the clinical thermometers supplied to members of the medical profession and to medical institutions had not 'been tested, and were unreliable. In such places as the tuberculin dispensaries of Derbyshire the accuracy of the thermometers was most important, since the injections of tuberculin were regulated to a great extent by the daily temperature record.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 70, 24 March 1915, Page 8
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173CHEAP THERMOMETERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 70, 24 March 1915, Page 8
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