The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-08
CITY AFFAIRS.
|Sunstrokes and how to
avoid them.
Library Statistics Of an In
teresting nature.
II
A Confidence Man, and other
local events.
SUN STROKES.

| SUN STkOkES.
The first case of fatal sunstroke occurred
at an early hour this morning. Swan Fast
employed at the lower saw mill was over
come by the heat yesterday afternoon. and
was removed to his home in an insensible
condition Physicians were summoned
who worked with him, but to no effect as
his death occurred this morning at l
o'clock. The deceased was a married man
and had been in this county about one
week. He was not enjoying good health
which may account for his fatal attack.
] Another workman at the saw mill was
also Frustrated with the heat yesterday.
He is all right this morning.
| Martin Henshaw, at work on the streets
was overcome yesterday afternoon with the
heat He was taken home, and is reported
| to have recovered this morning.
PREcAUTIoN
The greatest care and precaution is nee
essary to prevent sunstroke, and there is
authority for the statement that such OPP
preston will sometimes occur even in the
shade.
The best plan to prevent such stroke is
to keep cool and do not allow yourself to
become excited even over politics or reli
gion
The following regulations should be
borne in mind:
First of ALL abstain from alcoholic liq-
uors and the absorption of as much cool
not iced-water as the system will carry;
the system being saturated with liquid, IA
cilitates an abundant perspiration, carrying
off with it the extra heat of the blood.
Next, clothing loose and cool, avoiding
any pressure ypon the respiratory or other
vital organs. Sleeping or lying down in
ill-ventilated rooms, without constant
draft TO renew the atmosphere, is at least
as dangerous as remaining exposed to the
direct rays. of the sun.
The symptoms are so rapid and striking
as to leave but little room for definitions !;
but some of the most characteristic are the
drFness of the skin-the suppression of
perspiratiOn and the 'micturition,' or loose
moss of the kidneys 1t is, in fact, dis
ease of the nervous system, preceded by
thirst, heat, vertigo, congestion of the eyes,
of the brain and of the lungs, and, not I'M
frequently, accompanied by syncopes and
commissions while in many instances it
brings on fits of insanity.
TREATMENT.
First of all remove all clothing which
bears on the upper portion of the body
and dash cold water in unlimited quantity
over the sufferer until the skin has become
normally cool. If even ice water may be
procured, use it also, but with more mod
Grafton and only as reactive. Encourage
free drinking of cool beverages, chiefly
water, so as to induce vomiting. If the
spasms continue, use light stimulants, but
with great prudence and moderation. If,
however, reaction of the skin cannot be
brought on, blister applied to the nap of
the neck may be resorted to, and often
succeeds. In case of the sunstroke being
followed by epilepsy, this SYMPTOM is not
alarming, but the contrary. Only keep
the sufferer in the shade, and in as cool
and well ventilated place as can be pro
vided. But the worst, and almost invaria-
bly, fatal symptoms. are complete insensi-
bility, far more ominous than commissions,
intense, persistent heat of the skin, tumul
tuous action of the heart, falling pulse
and lividity Of the hands and feet.