  We have investigated hadron screening masses, the chiral condensate, and the
pion decay constant close to the deconfinement phase transition in the confined
phase of QCD. The simulations were done in the quenched approximation, on a
lattice of size \mbox{$32^{3}\times 8$}. We examined temperatures ranging from
$0.75\tc$ up to $0.92\tc$. We see no sign of a temperature dependence in the
chiral condensate or the meson properties, but some temperature dependence for
the nucleon screening mass is not excluded.
