Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — To Avert Sunstroke. [ARTICLE]

To Avert Sunstroke.

St. Louia Globe-Democrat Now that the sunstroke season is at hand it seems to me that the city authorities could follow Boston’/ plan of prevention with profit. There all the laborers on the street?, rock piles, public buildings, etc., are given weak gruel made of oat meal instead of ice water whenever they are thirsty. Ice water, beer and whisky are all prohibited. The oat meal drink is very cooling to the blood, it has been found, and is very strengthening besides. Men who drink it regularly seem to enjoy immunity from heat prostration, though they toil Ijour after hour ia the hottest sun.