Adaptation to Cold Climates by DR. O. G. EDHOLM
Head of the Division of Human Physiology, National Institute for Medical Research
The second of two radio versions of talks from Nottingham There is a little evidence that some groups of people are physiologically adapted to cold, but in this country our protection is primarily in the way we arrange our surroundings—houses, clothes and so on. Apart from deaths by exposure on mountain or moor, an unknown number of old people die from cold each year.