HEAT AND HUMIDITY
HUMAN RESISTANCE THE TEST’S IN BRISBANE BRISBANE, June 10. In the concluding day of the heat and humidity tests. conducted by the Brisbane University to determine human resistance in the tropics, only one of the four students endured 7£ hours at a temperature of 110 degrees and 58 per cent, humidity. The tests also determined that human resistance was considerably higher than that of animals. Cows used in the earlier tests reached the limit of endurance at lower temperatures.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26175, 11 June 1946, Page 5
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