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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1936.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1936.

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

SERVICES

the London-Singapore service,

It is a discase in which the blood will not clot in a wound, so that sufferers may bleed to death from a mere scratch.

Perhaps you had not heard of

it. But 152 people in Great Britain died of it in 1934—109 men, forty-three women.

That means that the chances against any one person dying

for instance, the chances

against YOUR being shot

are thirty thousand to one.

But only one person in 29

die of old age

THIS QUESTION

suicide.

of the odds of life is fascinat- most ing.

INFLUENZA IS more likely to kill than any of them: one death. In eighty-five was due to influenza,

Sleepy sickness shows 605 to one. This must not be confused with sleeping sickness, which is a tropical disease and killed no one in Britain in 1984, no one in 1928, no one in 1982, ond each in 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1981, and 1933, and three in 1925- all ahen.

Anthrax usually caught from infected shaving brushes, or occasionally by wool-sorters hila more men than women, the respective chances being one in 30,357 and one in 239,955. Tetanus (lock-jaw, usually caught from a neglected or in- fected wound: not from cutting the hand between the thumb and the forefinger) has odds of 4,219 to one. Rables (hydro- phobia, caused by the bite of a mad dog) has no victim in len

years.

THE CANCER odds are

low-seven and one- third to one. Its causes are still a mystery. It can come from a blow; it can come, they say, from rich food; it can-at least DIE it does-run of appendicitis

apparently in and families. Doctors fall to heart

FARMERS

disease (44 per cent.), nerve The chances of your "dying of

Some of the chances cannot complaints (20 per cent.), mor- drink are 9,170 to one. It must It would be dif- tuberculosis (7 per cent.), and succumb actually to kidney phine poisoning (20 per cent.), be borne in mind that holism disease, heart disease, cirrhosis.

of it are 3,000 to one. Against be computed. any one man dying of it. 2,000 ficult to assess the risk of being influenza. to one any wonian. 5,000 to killed by a tortoise falling on

your head, as was father of the Greek drama..

one.

NOTES OF THE DAY,

INCREDIBLE

2

The most prevalent cause of cirrhosis. Eschylus,

be

death of all is heart disease of varying types. One in three

Smallpox-once

male

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is both a commoner

to kidney disease, heart disease,

DISEASES

OF

disease, and is treated (rightly) Guy Ramsey

to thirty-four. two, with 233 to one.

Diphtheria has even shorter BULLS AND INNERS

BUT THE ORDI and a half of the population of childbirth kill one woman in nary risks

Britain die of it. Angina pec- eighty-five. of life can

toris (pronounced Ann Jyna measured.

And the risks are Peck-toris; pain of the chest) but boils and carbuncles kill one

A boil seems a trivial matter.. Now that Hongkong is served.

diminishing all the time. is one of the commonest forms. in by Imperial Airways, more than

Whether or not Herr. Hitler him! A child born

844 people. Early infancy between the Angina hits self is responsible for the punish-necession of Victoria, in 1837, men rather than mechanical

professional diseases kill one in thirty-one. ordinary interest has been arous-ment to be inflicted upon Dr. Hugo and the mid-Victorian period of workers; men who worry rather nine dies of old age..

Only

one person in twenty- ed locally in the Parliamentary Eckener, famous designer and com-

than men who have an equnble debates this week on the ser.mander of Zeppelins, because he did 1871 could look forward at best

temperament.

You have odds of 2,110. vices maintained by this well-

not name his newest command after to forty years of life. By the the Nazi chieftain, or permit it to 'eighties it could hope to live

IN THE YEAR against dying of homicide; of known organisation. None of he used by voters in the election, until forty-four.

At the begin There were 242,855 men, 233,-

1934, 476,810 people

30,734 against being shot; of died. 11,029 against being stabbed the critics have passed any we do not venture to guess. Bet ning of the century it had 955 women-men and women strictures on the reliability, of one might think that a man who is jumped to forty-nine. By 1910 including babies

As to accidents, the odds these services, for the simple einsh of political elements in Europe To-day it is fifty-nine. By 1944 dividing the total number of 14,900: against food poisoning

engaged in attempting to avoid a the average life was fifty-five. female. Reckoning the odds by by

and against your dying of an attack л venomous animal are reason that in this regard they or to alde-step any diplomatic blows new-born child will have an the total number of people who against drowning, 794; against

victims of any complaint into 29,800; against fire, are beyond reproach. Indeed, which may be aimed at his Govern-

7,947;* as one member of the House rement, would not have time for such expectation of sixty-five years died, these figures emerge.

hunger and thirst, 31,787: marked. the country has every tinted against Dr. Eckener. The

picayune proceedings as those in-of life.

The odds against any person heat, 8,514; against lightning. against cold, 29,800; against Various lives have their own succumbing to typhoid reason to be proud of the part famous Commander's name

and must particular perils. 'Costermon. paratyphoid are 1,627 to one. 43,346; against electric shock, which Imperial Airways has not be mentioned in newspapers gera are short-lived; miners are

7.117. The odds against death and his picture must not be pub-short-lived; knife grinders have treated with red blinds to save which includes road accidents- played in the development of shed, Dr. Josef Goebbels, Propa-

disease "by falling and crushing"- the Empire services, When we ganda Minister, has ordered. And | ja death-rate 229 per cent. in pock-marking; once a disease are thirty-eight and a half to come to the matter of schedules, this because Dr. Eckener had heard excess of normal.

dreaded like the plague has one against. odds of, 79,479 to one against its however, it has to be conceded dirigible named "Adolf Hitler" and of the Church of England are the various vaccination

a hint that somebody wanted his On the other hand, clergymen fatality. This is due both to The odds are eighty-six to one. Last but one comes suicide. that there is room for improve- | straightway christened it "Field long-lived, yielding pride of paigns and to improved methods of war wounds are 2,926 to one. cam- The odds against a man dying ment in the time-tables. Par-Marshal von Hindenburg.” To

of sanitation and hygiene. ticular reference was made in some such a penalty might cause

place only to farm bailiffs. pain; but we somehow doubt that Married men are the longest- one against, nearly four times odds against your being exe- Measles has odda-of-127-to-Finally, if you are a man, the the Commons on Wednesday to. Dr. Eckoner will be very much up-lived. Their average age is as heavy as scarlet fever, which

set because he doesn't see his pic fifty-five to sixty-four. Widows has odds of 496. Against this, woman, 233,955 to one.

cuted are 30,355 to one; if a on which route Imperial Airways [tures in the papers. He is 'n man range .on the is admittedly behind the Dutch wedded to his science; and because fifty-nine. Married women are as far less dangerous. Whoop-

average up to measles line. It was shown during the with dirigibles, and Count Zep-twenty-five,

of the close association of his name the shortest-lived, averaging ing cough comes between the debate that on the flight from pelin's great sky cruisers in part!-Widowers and bachelors may London to Singapore, the K.L.M. Jeular, we shall never read of their schedule is 44 hours faster than that of Imperial Airways, whilst in the reverse direction the Dutch company can claim a difference of 56 hours

commander will always rank as one in its favour. How this affects Hong-That he should come into disfavour of Germany's really, great men. kong may be gathered by com-by reason of a determination to paring the time-tables in regardsteer clear of politics acema almost to this week's services. The

impossible to believe, Dorado, which left Hongkong yesterday for Penang, is carry- ing mails due to arrive in London on April 13. Yet it is possible, to send air mail by the P. and O. for accelerated services not only liner Ranchi, leaving Hongkong to India and Austraila, but to to-day, and secure a connection South Africa as well. On the with the Dutch air-mail line so general question of expansion, it as to enable letters to reach Lon-would obviously not be prudent don on the same date as the ar- for Imperial Airways to go ahead rival of the Imperial Airways' on a mammoth, scale until the plane. In other words, even subsidy question had been set- after allowing for the steamer tled. Even as conditions are, trip from here to Singapore, and the British company covers a posting a day later, there is no greater yearly mileage than the loss of time by utilisation of the French, Dutch or Italian lines Dutch service. Obviously there on a far smaller subsidy. Hap is need for improvement by Im-pily, with the House of Commons perial Airways on this link. Japproving the increased sub- The British organisation, how-sidy, there are prospects of fas ever, is fully alive to this fact, ter services in the near future. and it has accordingly been When these are instituted, Hong- announced that under the new kong will participate in the Empire scheme the time on this advantages, with the con- route will be reduced to less than sequence that we shall be five days, as compared with nine brought into more rapid contact or ten days at present. In this with London and other parts of connection, we observe that the the Empire as well.

die of it.

voyages and adventures without expect to reach the half-century, odds than measles, vine in ita

Indenburg" stands that smiling, recalling that at the controls of the

spinsters to top it.

bearded, fearless figure, Dr. Eckener.

From the Office Butts We hear of a Peak indy who has made over one hundred pounds of As far as we can gather, it resembles anything but tomato jam.

The famous Zeppelin SIDE GLANCES By George Clark toto jam

fleet of twenty-nine flying-boats under construction for Imperial{ Airways is intended primarily

PIA

"There hasn't been anything worth reading since some of Kipling's early things."

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Another Peak resident has dis- covered a way of eating prunes. He soaks 'em in gin.

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On the other hand, a well-known

Kowloonite profers his plain-

without prunes!

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It is said that shorts will be

worn shorter, this year. But some

people don't wear them any longer.

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This weather should bring our

nudists out of their shells,

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Business is said to be looking

up in Hongkong. For the air- {mail, of course,

It is said that passion fruit

flourishes in Hongkong. Especial- ly around matsheds on a moonlight night

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Market Report:

During the

week, moth-balls were strong, many parcels being bought for six months ahend.

A .0.

Maybe the Government could take a tip from Singapore and make a bit of money by charter. Ing the Kau Sing to visiting film. atara..