COLD WAVE IN SYDNEY

Evening Star, Issue 16780, 8 July 1918, Page 6

COLD WAVE IN SYDNEY

SEVERAL I'liK-SoNiS OOCLAPSF. ONK CASK PKOVJIS FATAL. STDN'KV. June 25. Ahhouffb !•'at- v- more likely to raw cprrbrti 1 licmorriir.pe than cold, doctors are prepared to adorn tlio possibility of Mie eold Fast of Inst i;iA:i, and (his morning—the lowest tempera i trie -vaa 12<les, the cola est of the season —bavins* been responsible, tor the cohanse of several persons as », result of the bursiimr of bloodvessels of the, brain.

One of the cases ovoved final. .lohu Horuv Husband, aged 59, collapsed at the inquivv office, • >;' the Soldiers ' -lub, m George street, where lie was employed, yesterday afternoon. He died in Sydney Hospital.' This moniint' the Civil Ambulance bandied two eases. Christopher Watson, aeed 64-, of Wattle si reer. Ultimo, collapsed at the corner of Ocon;e M.rect west and Abercrumbie street, a,id was taken vo the Royal Prince Alfred .Hospital in a critical condition. Michael Kener.e. a tram-driver, ot Walter streel, IVtddinspon, was on his tram in Old «nu!ii' Head "read. Woollahra. when ho dropped unconscious. He. was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital. The cold was probably responsible lor tlm collapse of the three men. _ With the mercury making towards ireezm;,' point the vitality of the individual is at us lowest, and ther-v is a likelihood oi it causing higher tension than usual upon the bloodvessels. Bv- constricting the vessels ikwii- tlie surface the eohl would increii.se too pressure on the internal vessels, and would m that wav bring on cerebral hemorrhage. thul: the cold was felt in the cny to-day was obvious. Kvc-rv '-iit of sunshine was utilised, and it whs a "rare"' sisrhf to wo 'be (--houiauds baskin;: in the sun in various parts of the city during- the luncheon hour. For instance, tho shady side ot .Joore street was deserted ; but the Commonwealth Bank coiner, which got the. full benefit of what sun there was. ws used as an idling croui:/ by hundreds.

A tSydnoy cabk message, received to-day states "that cold, piercing weather is beinj; experienced. Many dfetnj** are beginnm;,' to suffer owJng to the protracted absence of rain.