Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1913 — WAGES FOR BLOWING BREATH [ARTICLE]

WAGES FOR BLOWING BREATH

Eight Women In New York Laboratories Draw Dollar a Day for Thus Aiding Experiments. New York.—A dollar a day for blowing* one’s breath is being paid at the laboratories of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to eight women who started upon their unique occupation recently. When a representative of the laboratory went to the municipal lodging house to get recruits for the work he barely escaped being locked up as fit for the psychopathic ward. He explained, however, that women were wanted in connection with experiments in sickroom ventilation. They were to breathe into six teen ounce bottles imbedded in refrigerators, the food particles being removed from the breath during its passage through a rubber tube. The, condensed vapor is to be chemically analyzed, and the doctors hope through their experiments to better conditions of the atmosphere in sickrooms.