HEALTHY CLOTHES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20316, 26 January 1928, Page 13

HEALTHY CLOTHES.

Striking results have already arisen from tests of the health value of wool, cotton, artificial silk, and other textiles which are being made m the Department of Textile Industries at Leeds University, under the auspices of the New Health Society. As a result of preliminary investigations it has been shown that wool and "viscose can take up moisture more efficiently than cotton, and that under similar conditions they can hold moisture for approximately double the length or time that cotton can. _ The relative figures arc:—Wool, 16; viscose, 16; silk, 111 • cotton, 8; celaneso. <4; linen, (. “ The research, said Dr Caleb Williamo Saleeby, chairman of the Clothing Committee of the New Health Society, in an interview, “will cover the hygienic properties of wool, cotton, silk, artificial silks, linen, and ramie, and it will in elude the effects of dyes. The fabrics will be submitted to seven distinct tests, covering air-containing and transmitting properties mosture absorbing and dry[tier properties, heat-retaining properties, action of light on dved and undyed fabrics, light-transmitting _ properties, washableness, psychological, irritant, and other effects, local and general. So exhaustive are these experiments for which new scientific apparatus has already been constructed, that they will mean constant research work for a period of probably three years.” _____