DEATHS INCREASE IN CERTAIN MONTHS.
ACCLIMATISATION FOR GAMES NECESSARY. (Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND, July 23. In a lecture entitled “Seasonal Fluctuations in Human Behaviour” Professor A. B. Fitt showed that the deaths increased in July and August. Suicides rose in the same months. The human organism was then at a low ebb owing to the consumption of winter nutritives. Professor Fitt said he had put the seasonal theory to a practical test in a study of the activities of the Australian and English cricketers, and he had been struck by the tendencies peculiarly resembling cycle changes. The visiting team always tended to lose. For cricket, tennis and athletics the only remedy was to visit England a vear earlier for seasonal acclimatisation. If it were practical, matches should take place in the neutral months, say autumn. Instancing Rose, the professor said his unsatisfactory form was due to a fight with his organism, which was trying hopelessly to adapt itself immediately to a climatic change.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17906, 23 July 1926, Page 9
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