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DOCTORS SAY ON SIRENS AND SLEEP
How many hours of sleep can we lose without harm?. This is what a large part of the population, kept awake nightly, by air raids, wants to know, writes a London correspondent.
The medical answer, though tentative, seems to be that we habitually sleep more than we need and, within limits, a little less sleep may do us no harm.
A doctor I talked to admitted: "English doctors have not studied the subject. All anma t
"It seems that German doctors haye," he said. "You have heard; the stories of the German me- chanised troops who are given a drug that keeps them awake for 48. hours. But I don't think it can be said that anyone here is a spe- cialist on sleep.
"Now doctors have. their chance to examine the effects of lack of sleep in a large number of people. Let's hope they will take it.
"I believe legs sleep wilt do little harm. For instance, young people who spend half the night at dances don't seem to feel any I-effects from it."
"I seem to remember when I was young that the morning after the late night felt a little vague," I told him.
That was enough for a doctor. "It probably wasn't the lack of sleep that was troubling you either," he said pointedly. We agreed for my character's sake to leave it at that...
because he lost his power to sleep. Psychologists would say that was because he lost his self-confidence,
Sleepless London
PLANE FIRED ON NEAR HONG KONG
On her flight to Hong Kong, an air liner, the identity of which cannot be con- firmed, was fired at.. by Japanese A.A. bat- teries at Namtau last evening.
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THIRTY-THREE ·PEDES- I asked all sorts of people how TRIANS WERE ARRESTED BY- or whether they did without THE KOWLOON. POLICE LAST.. sleep.
NIGHT FOR INFRINGEMENT London has been one of the. OF. "THE "BLACK-OUTY RE- sleepless towns this last Who is the representative: Lon- MATCHES. FLASHING, TOR- week. GULATIONS BY STRIKING doner Naturally, the greatest of CHES AND LIGHTING Cockney
JOSS- comedians, the. man STICKS IN THE OPEN. whom Londoners recognise as one of themselves. I mean Mr. Gor-Yaumati district, seven in Sham- ̈ ̈
Fifteen were arrested in the don Harker.
shuipo, six in Mong Kok, three,
area,
I found him making a film. It in Kowloon City and was between two air raid alarms, Hunghom.
two in but shooting was going on merrily at the; studios in Denham.
Pedestrians: in the Tsimsha- tsut District How does Mr. Gordon Harker more black-out-minded, not a were apparently do without sleep? The answer single arrest being made in that seems to be he just sleeps.
"I get home as soon as I can from the theatre,"
Appearing before Magistrates Mr. Harker at Kowloon this morning they says, "and I just go to bed. I received fines ranging from 61 haven't been later than 2 a.m.".
to $5. That was when, at the London theatre he is playing in, they before. Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen One "cat" burglar, charged had dancing on the stage since with breaking into No. 6 Bowr the alarm went on some hours ing Street, ground floor, and after the show was over, and the stealing a sewing machine dur It is true that neither, doctors audience couldn't go home.} nor psychologists know what is
"I have a reinforced basement for 24 hours..
mg the black-out, was remanded the cause or the nature of normal and we've put a couple of camp sleep. There are at least four beds down there," Mr. Harker I' theories. One, is about accumula- says. "But we haven't been down tion of acid products of meta- there yet. Steady nerves? I don't bolism). another about oxygen
think so. I couldn't see, the point stored by the cells, there..is a of staying up. "toxin theory" and a theory that "We've been careful to take all explains sleep, as something that the proper precautions sand in happens in the nerve. cells.
After Three Hours
Most of these are abandoned, and the popular theory at the mo- ment is derived from the Russian Pavlov's experiments in condi- tloned reflexes. Sleep, say the moderniata, is one big physiologi¬ çal inhibition.
It has been found that we sleep soundly only for the first thred hours. Aften, that the depth of sleep is very slight. Maybe we need the later hours less.tlian we think.
Middle-aged people find sleep less and less necessary to them, History is full of stories (generally unverlied) of great men and wo, men, who needed a minimum of sleep. Napoleon is the cinsale ox ample of the man: supposed to be ablo to go to sleep at will, taking an hour's nap in the middle of a battle it he felt like it.
There is a school of Napolean fans who say he had stomach ache at Waterlop and lost the battle
the attic and all that sort of thing) After that we try to live: as nor mal a life as we can."
I think more than ever that Mr Gordon Harker) is a representative Londoner.
VICEROY'S FUND
FIRE ON THE PEAK
AUSTIN BARRACKS SHORTLY FIRE BROKE OUT AT MOUNT
SEVERE DAMAGE WAS CAUS- AFTER 3 AM · TO-DAY, AND |ED TO THE STOREROOM IN WHICH THE OUTBREAK ORI- GINATED.
Two fire appliances from the Central Tire Station and one from the Peak Fire Station were sent outdo
The fire was extinguished with- THE VICEROY OF INDIA'S three-quarters, of an hour: of WAR PURPOSES FUND WHICH the arrival of fire appliances.. IS RAISED ENTIRELY FROM
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This includes £400,000 car. Mrs. Elsie, Lee was granted n marked to buy aeroplanes for decree nist by the Chief Justice Britain and £109,000 to purchase Sir Atholl MacGregor in the motor, ambulances, fon. Britain Divorce Court this morning in her The latest contributions In-petition, for dissolution of her clude £1,500 from tits. State of marriage to My. James L Sikim, whilla the total of monetary the Hon. Mr. Leo d'Almada, gifts from Madras is now around Instructed by Mr. G. K-HullBrut- £375,000. -- Router,
ton, appeared for the petitioner..