FIGHT AGAINST THE COMMON COLD.—Under the direction of the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council, a special unit is investigating the mysteries of the common cold at Harvard Hospital, near Salisbury, in the most comprehensive investigation into the common cold yet undertaken in this country, Volunteers, who live in pairs in self-contained Hats, are helping the doctors in their work, at present confined to discovering elementary facts about the germ which causes colds. The National Council called for volunteers who were ready to spend 10 days with the research unit under conditions prescribed by the experimental work entailed. Picture shows: Mr. and Mrs. L. Adamson, of Hull, volunteers at Harvard Hospital, collecting their food, which is delivered to their flat in a thermos flask, untouched by outside contacts to insure, that no alien germs reach the “guinea-pigs’’ while undergoing tests.

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 January 1947, Page 5

FIGHT AGAINST THE COMMON COLD.—Under the direction of the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council, a special unit is investigating the mysteries of the common cold at Harvard Hospital, near Salisbury, in the most comprehensive investigation into the common cold yet undertaken in this country, Volunteers, who live in pairs in self-contained Hats, are helping the doctors in their work, at present confined to discovering elementary facts about the germ which causes colds. The National Council called for volunteers who were ready to spend 10 days with the research unit under conditions prescribed by the experimental work entailed. Picture shows: Mr. and Mrs. L. Adamson, of Hull, volunteers at Harvard Hospital, collecting their food, which is delivered to their flat in a thermos flask, untouched by outside contacts to insure, that no alien germs reach the “guinea-pigs’’ while undergoing tests.