Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-19
HEAT REGISTRATION
Men Who Do 0ut Door Work Now Can Stand Heat -All Night Dug Store.

AltuOuBu Dut I0W cases or neat prostration have occurred in Water- bury this summer. the doctors are re- ceiving calls to render assistance to people who find the present hot spell too much for them, and curiously enough quite a few of the cases come in the nighttime after the stores are closed. This revives the old question of the great need of at least one or two drug stores keeping open all night. Some time since the doctors tried this, but nobody in the drug business cared to comply with the re- quest. and as consequence when anything happens after midnight which necessitates the putting up of prescription, good deal of running from one place to another has to be done before clerk can be located. Of course nobody would think of try ing to force druggists to keep open, but 1t does seem that 1t would pay at least one of the stores in the center \ to do business all night. Many would call if they knew they would be
 
 more than enough would be taken in to pay the cost of light and the wages of clerk. In the past sunstroke was quite common in Waterbury at this season, but one hears little about such things now. Whether this is due to weather conditions or different class of out of door laborers might be difficult to tell, but in any case 1t is so, and one might not be far from the mark if he should say that the men have more to do with 1t than anything else. Prior to twenty-five or thirty years ago every common labor CT in Waterbury was an English speaking person, and 1t is we'll known that during the summer months 1t was quite common to hear of them being taken off the streets, out of sand banks, cellars and other places suffering from heat prostration. When the late Thomas Martin was working at the big sand bank that covered the property now occupied by the New England Watch factory, half dozen men fell in heap there one afternoon and were hurried across lots to Thomas Connor's cafe at the corner of South Main street and Sandland place, where an effort was made to revive them. One or two of them died and the others were con- fined to their homes for several days. Similar cases were quite common in that year and were of frequent oc- currence until the coming of the lit Ic Co rlr vVaa fprv, or,a h. ern Europe, who seemed to enjoy the strong rays of the sun and made such a success of digging that in time he supplanted the English-speaking peo- pie altogether in all out of door oc- equations that require great physical endurance, and the ability to look the sun sQuarely in the face the whole day long and not feel the worse for 1t. It was a good thing for everybody that these men were headed towards the United States. What would be the condition in the towns and cities of Connecticut at the present time without them? What headway could be made towards doing even such small jobs as are now going on in the public streets of Waterbury, lay ing water mains. digging sewers and other work of that sort? You who think there are too many of them around, take peep at them some day away down at the bottom of a sewer ditch and If you covet their positions. They were born and reared in a warm climate and can be happy under condition which. to say the least, would work great hardship to others. No doubt this explains why we hear SO little about sunstroke these times.