All in a Doctor's Day-by CEDRIC CARNE
IF YOU GET STUNG
ON HOLIDAY
Kowama
外墙
ZOOMING Bound. Bzzz. Nearer and nearer, Not a 'Messerschmitt, not a MIG. A moment of silence and then the cry of "Ouch." Thát, 'in brief, is the scenario for an insect bite or sting. And it is happening right now all over Britain,
Mr Baron, who had just re- turned from holiday, was one of mony victims,
"I think that it was just a midge," he said, showing me his arm where he had been bitten.
not
Those tiny flies, bölte midges, though they are carriers of human disenac, Con be a real nuisance, In Scotland. particularly, they may be
especially threat to tourists, during August and September. The effect of the blto varies from person to person, deperd- ing how senaitive one is 10 such diye bombing.
"This swelling started about six hours üfterwards," Baran explained. "and it feels quite stiff and sore."
A MOSQUITO?
As a result of the bite Mr Baron had some glands up. 11 was not due to any secondary infection as he thought. Conse- quently there was no polut,in Elying him penlelin or any of The other antibiotics.
Of course, I couldn't be sure that it wes a midge that had done the trick. It could have been a black-By. Generally, la Britain, they breed in tiny streams with gravel beds, which dry up in the summer time,
Or, again, a masquite could have been responsible. On the other hand, following a mosquito bite there is often an immediato allergic reaction, and Mr Baroni had alrendy pointed out the xwelling didn't get going really for some hours.
"Whatever it was, It's quite painful," Mr Burun complained,
He was fortunate not to have -had a chunk taken out of him by a horse-fly. These are vicious insects, and can bite
through clothing. Horse-flies -010.must troublesome in sunny weather, when they loot around woods and Belds. They are the Teddy Bays of the insect world, and the female of the specles drinks
blood.
do you
"What treatmen! suggest?" asked Mr Buron.
SILVER- CLEANING MAGIC!
The treatment of bites caused by midges, black-files, mosqui- toes, and horse-flies, is all the and plentiful same, Frequent
of cool colamine applications lotion are most soothing. Some doctors recommend antibista- nine and hydrocortisone creams, but it's doubtful if they are better than calamine, which L far,chepper anyway.
For bee, wasp, and ant bites the treatment differs. The bee leaves part of its afing in the skin and care must be taken not to squeeze more venom into the wound when it is removed.
The bee sting té neld and so can be neutralised with bicar- bonate of soda or ammonia. This should be dabbed on, not rubbed in. Waspi, though, leavs "bite," so the alkaline in the household antidote for that ir Jemon Julee or vinegar.
"Bee or wasp stings can be dangerous, can't
they?"
Mr Baron asked as I applied some calamine lotion to his arm.
"People very sensitive to such stings may collapse," ) said, "Some have even died in a few mitutes."
IT. IS RARE
aro
But such catastrophes
The sort of person who rare. would worry about that is the insure kind of mon who will himself against being bitten by alton on Hampstend Heath at four o'clock in the morning, on a wet Tuesday.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1957.
So you say
there are only five
types
of drinker? Don't make me smile by GILES
THE WORLD
AND THE Moderate!
BOTTLE
2
THAT'S BRITAIN!
HEY say: "When you come into this world your cot is three feet. When you die THEY
your grave is six feet. It's a hell of a fight for a yard." And some people have, to take a drink every inch of the way.
The background music to this century has changed rhythm, but always the tone gets more phrenete; the drinking gets harder; the effects of alcohol grow...We in Britain get off lightly-so far. We are comparatively a citadel of calm, a moderate people with moderate habits. But across the Channel and into foreign parts we got more disturbing reports.
а
pattern
Nevertheless,
is true of emerges. And this almost every country which has had its industrial revolution i recovered from it. he said,
Mr Baron nodded when I'd
Anlated bandaging his arm. "I had a nice holiday," "but I was stung twice.""
"Your arm," I nodded, where else?"
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To put it gently: alcoholism "but is now a problem of the well-10- do instead of a problem of-gin. soaked poverty.
"My hotel bill," he groaned.
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poorer-well, he shakes his head
nd has a drink.
In France...
ET'S
take a
closer look a France, where the problem
In Britain the kind of drunkenness which disfigured our urban areas, and especially of alcohol has reached the London, at the turn of the cen- politicul platforms. Says Express-
Ju Sydney Smith from Paris tury has changed.
Gone are the kind of acces which Arthur Morrison immor- ialised in such works as "Tales of Mean Streets." The charac- ters then were drinking to forget that they were short of neces- alties,
The world has lurched on. Now the drinking is done to ense the tonalons and stresses of the baltie to keep up with-and beat -the Joneses.
Yo, Ho, Ha! We're not letting
this one pass. According to the nonsense about The World and The Boltje doctors have decided that there are five basto types of drinker.
Five baslo types. Indeed. Without stopping to think, this hurrica iliustration shows at least another 19 of them, and ¤ could go on drawing them all day if it didn't mean missing opening times.
Haven't the doctors met our old friend Number 1, the type who tells you he'd just sa soon drink ten, but it's the com-
pany he likes?
Or Number 2. the type who can't drink Sesich unless it's
mixed with politics?
And Number 3, the "I-work-
I begin to think, as I study body would have whispered, the reports from Expressmen scandalised, about 'Disgrace on overseas, that the most over,
lile family. looked factor in all alcoholism Is this matter of one's Dag.
Follow me to Tokyo, where Sertram Jones is reporting. Here is a war-defeated country. And, as in Germany, drunken-
5. ness is on the increase. The "Drinking Western style is 6 The "Let me tell you my Japs must
swagger. Says the smart thing to do in Japan's Borrows." Jones
new democracy. Instead of 7. The drinker who cookery lessons, modern wives stens to your stories, but when "In this cocktail-shaker diy attend excktail classes learning you've finished goes straight on where the picturesque name for how to mix a meaner Manhat with "That reminds me, ".","
8. Knocker. pub-crawling is ladder-drinking (the more you do it the higher you get), the one man who really needed a good süff shot of some- thing tonight was a club friend of mine whose customary bracer to feel is tomato juice.
"For Japan is a land of happy drunka. It is the only place I better-when-Im-Ught" type? know where you can do prac-
And Number 4, the "Hang on, tically anything while tight and Georgewe might gel onɑ here get away with smiling for- In a minale" typer giveness.
And follow the numbers.
The knocker,
I have the theory that just as second-class people drink to nations excess, so second-class are opt to go off on permanent birges.
:
It's all an effort tougher.
"He had just dived from
tox?!"
In Britain...
nover
D. "You must meet old - and-so-he'll make you die with underitalement, laughter!" An
if ever.
10. "Let's have one for the
FAST-WEST, thera's the world road on Bid"
and its bottle, escaping from something, sipping liquid
"There." railway platform to. save a luppiness, irying to
Example, Sweden. Chris Wollin reports, "alcoholism Japanese
substitute the some
Almost trider
he kept
11. Sld.
12. Knocker,
13. " you really must compose knew. Mr Mildew, I drink be- for the
cause I like "
14. "So do L 15. Disenchanted.
15 4 tremendous problem. wheels of a train. Missed us by twentieth-century bluca, is a death "Thore
inches," due to Alcoholic asylums are being ballt about three
Hore la Britain we can take in France every 28
"And the chap comfort. The slogan: "All things Just treated
16. Two drinkers who have alcoholism
for the aquavit addicts and the saying shakily.
was tight.'
a fellow drinker minutes. Last year 6,000 died of
Tor of 'Skaal' almost drowns
in inoderation” is written into Ts and 14,000 of cirrhosis-
who didn't treat them back. the traffic."
"So another sake - pooler our national tradition.
17. "Drink doesn't have any double the figures of five years
(pronounce zay-kay, rice And we ago.
have scen that in effect on me," wine) had staggered off home moderation
Клот alcohol
the 18. Watch this one. uncaring. If he had been killed greatest tranquilliser of than lots of Uttle tricks with matches. or crippled, as 1,118 people were all
The drive-you-to-drink type. while wondering tipsily on Japan's railways last year, no.
"Annual consumption of clear alcohol in France is four gallons 04 plats per l. in Britain it is one galicu 7% pints.
"There is one bar for every 430 inhabitants in Britain-but France there is one for every 30, and Finch bars don't close. "Alcoholism costs the French Government £123 million
year
The alcoholics of the well-to- do countries note America. even Holland-re middle-closs. The alcoholles of the more be- wildered countries, are still in free medical services-because found in the usasantrics, as in one in six Frenchmen and one in France and Italy: and in the 20 French women are in a state *working-class, in Sweden, of permanent alcohol impregna-
tion
I use that werd "bewildered."
"So along France's main roads
-SOBRIETY.!"
1 think a vast muss of people, notices Scrcam: 'SECURITY touched by this century's developments, confused.
arc genuinely
Polities and rocial problems hem them in. There is a kind of claustrophobia, a desire to Ket out of the four walls of artificial circumstances,
In Italy...
THE story is similar in Italy. Thero poverty lagers among the peasants.
Thero a bustling middle-cires Юля not quite a stoorged.
A pensant can deal with crisis of calf-birth, but when something, for example, happens to the frone and he is the
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"You see, Dr.Hackenbacker, Walen, too, has her. Elvil
·Prozies.":
Conrad Allen reports from Rome: "I can remember between 1932 and 1932 meeting dozens of drunks. any evening. This year, hand on heart. I can recati moeting only two.
Let's pause for a reflection. We have talked of personal poverty, and personal tensions; and wo have touched 05
national pride.
We are a calm people.
And 18, The abstainer, Cheers.
Sweep away No. 10 I say
TOTHING so pleases an English crowd as a demolition squad.
a wall being pushed down by a bulldozer.
Yot this ja i contrary taste, for there is in England today a mania for preservation. Tell the public that a building is to be pulled down and they will rise in passion — passion quite unconnected with architectural virtue,
There are several recent Instances.
"First, the Imperial Institute in South Kensington. There are few uglier buildings in London. Yet when it was suggested that it should be destroyed to make way for a fine new extension of the Imperial College of Science, fatuous sentimental outery nearly put an end to the progressive scheme.
Lord Mallistone, à reputable architect, went so far as to call its monstrous tower "one of the most beautiful campaniles in existence.” I invite you to go and look at
la
Next we have the Albert Bridge — a flimsy, dull construction. "Officers, Command of Troops are requested to break step," says a notice on this bridge. It would barely have been of use to Caesar and his cohorts one thousand years ago, with this embargo on marching.
"It's Victorian, It's pretty," parrot the Betjemanites. It is not pretty and it is out of dalë.
Miss Vivien Leigh has made a curious exhibition of herself "defending" the St. Jomes's Theatro. Anyone who has sat in it knowe the St. James's is apart neither comfortable nor good for seeing.
Now, too, we have squeals, about the Nash Terraces in Regent's Park
"Social life has opened up dozens of amusements from the osteria or pub. But drinking still goes with what and Carlton House Terrace, poverty is left — in the South and mountain villages of the North."
Street to inspect the premises on which they are to advise.
by QUENTIN CREWE
com
I discussed the question with one of Lord Crawford's mRlee, Sir Howard Robertson, pest President of the Royal Institute of British Architzols.
"It is a compilented old build- g" he raid of Number 10, "it lans intenso character but it is
It is true that these are grand and. gracious buildings. Indeed they are so agreable that it sur- What will they see there? What happens when q new prises me to find the supporters Coco behind the shiny black mitkile-class energes? And of Betjeman-the hollow lovers door of No. 18 they will And emerges too quickly. A classic of St. Pancras Station--bothering themselves as a large marble- example is Western Germany, their heads about these terraces, floored hall. Ahead les a long Over to Expressman William But remember that Nash nover corridor leading to the Cabinet Hamsher, who makes this state-built theso splendid Encoder to Room, to the left is a passogo ment:-
last. Like nearly all Regency to No. 11 on the right is a creaky positively unsafe. As long ago not highly distinguished. It has "Drunkenness has soared with show, they were jerry-bullt.
buildings they were made for old la.
Veutiae further is this ad 1783 Pitt was complaining a nur of history rather then German prosperity,"
It will take you on hour to fad that repairs had cost the com- any urobilectural merit. For that your way back. For behind the try £11,000,
1024123 on would won to sea small next facade lies a gigcntle
It.discppear." Alte:otions are perfenned for There are dank-looking court cryovery
- occupant,
The Belgians are doing well.
Now Downing St.
TIW
So they havo 580 browaries, What will be the next object rambling old houso. 33,000 pubs, and 37,000 Liquor of reverence for the preservers? aloren (because, spirits aren't The answer is plainly Downing yards; treacherous little steps, except perhaps for the present Wrong. This prococupatira with
served in pubs)..........
Yet note this: there is still less drink consumed there than before the Firm World War.
Iary that Sir Howard is
Street. A commilice of five man, hundreds of funds of: winding Prime Maister, for much money
preservation healthy,
We should,#tactica.out 'boldly. horded by Lord Crawford and corridors.
was spent when the Ea:ue Build new bridges, new theatres Balores his foom set up to No. 11 ir no botter, with its moved in. They had a luxury and a new home ice our Prime. recommend cotion to preserve kitchen two floors from the din bathroom installed and quantities Master. "these historic bulldogs end my room, no lift, and some of of rather image. Ive decora- Arvi i am sure we shall not be Easy to understand. Because make them maitable for their the bloakest rooms I have over tu dcuo for them. then people drank out of private - present purposes," desperation. Now they drink to *Shortly these five men are tô ;). The structure of these houres – Why proserve, this calm. their social tensions? ► -go (30+10, 11 xid 12, Downing, in abaky and is some places edifice?
surprised or paled to think that our descendents will pull down costly what we have bullt NAUGUR
(London, Express Bereich),