Prophylaxis and Treatment of Heat-Reaction States

DURING a severe heat wave in the summer of 1937, 8 of the aged residents of the Home of Old Israel in New York City succumbed in a single day under circumstances that left no doubt that the high environmental temperature was the precipitating cause of death. During the much more severe heat wave in August, 1948, not a single death occurred in the same institution although the mortality rate for the city as a whole was higher than that in 1937. It is believed that the reason for the difference is that the unfortunate experience of 1937 had led . . .