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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, November 25, 1936.

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Road Accidents and

With Some Observations in

H

Relation to Tea and Typing

By

A. P. HERBERT, M.P.

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·OW ODD it is that lofty sidered opinion thai scientists should still "moderate" quantity of alcohol, think it worth while to such as that contained in "give neat double whiskeys "large" whiskey, had an adverse to Lectotallers in order to prove effect on drivers, since it tended that it is better not to drink a to diminish attention and con-" neat double' whiskey just before trol, and reduced the accuracyý driving a motor-carl

and rapidity of the highly skilled I never drink a neat double muscular movements required in

the driving of amator-vehicle. whiskey; and I never drive a car, and if ever I proposed to do the Experiments have now been latter I should refuse to do the conducted with a dummy car former with especial vigour. So placed before a screen on which I agree with the learned gentle was a moving picture of the men's conclusion. But does it rond. Twenty persons were set

to "drive," three times before,

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WEDNESDAY, November 25, 1936.

DYSENTERY

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ounces

Alcohol"

I wish, too, that experiments

that

alcohol and three times after-same way as the distiller pro- I wish that these experiments wards. And the usual conclu- duces it for moonshine.

"Yet this same man will take were more thorough in execution sign was renched, that after two and wider in scope. Since Dr. four

to

of whiskey credit to himself for temperance, Stubbs Rd. H. M. Vernon delivered his lec-

a large tough. If he understood the (rather more than ture to the British Association whiskey!") most of them drove mechanism of starchy digestion on "The Relation of Aledhol to faster and made more mistakes. better, he would realise that be Road Accidents" I have been

is far more intemperate than is experimenting myself.

We are not toki, you notice the average alcohol addict." British perhaps the report was incom- There should be an inquiry into A committee of the Association had given the con- Was the whiskey neat or diluted?

plete), some important things. this.

If diluted, was it taken as one had been made (without alcohol) seasonal occurrence. Dr. Wel-large whiskey with a little soda un a lorry driver who is behind fington, in his report, indicates as two small whiskeys with a his schedule and stands to lose lot? Were the drivers accus- wages or work; on a young man that, as the Government were tomed to whiskey? Were the who has just bought a new car not in possession of reports from stomachs empty or full? Were and thinks that he is Malcolm private hospitals or other private the gentlemen fresh or tired and Campbell; on another young man Public suspicion that the dis- sources, it was not until Novem-

do his depressed?

who is determined to astrous local outbreak of dysen- | ber 13 that suspicions were

journey in 75 minutes this time tery originated in infected milk aroused that the cause might On the evidence as we have it, because old Stanley did it in 70 is confirmed, as far as it is pos- have been due to a common the first comment is that those last time; on a young motor- sible by deductive reasoning to origin. Against this we have to who drive faster, teetotal O bicyclist who likes to be able to rench a definite conclusion, by place the fact that by that date tipplers, are always likely to say that he "touched 70, old the considered statement which there had been five deaths of make more mistakes, because boy. These are the fellows His Excellency the Governor European children from the dis- they have less time to make de- that I am afraid of especially made at yesterday's meeting of ease, two in a Government hos- cisions. Speed is the danger. if they are stone-sober and think the Legislative Council.. There pital with many other cases But we know that already.

they can do anything. can, in the circumstances, be no under treatment. There thus

Or a single small political Many drivers tell me absolute proof, but the data appears some evidence to sup

who. will discuss when they are tired, worried, or available would seem

to curry port the view that detailed companion the presumption beyond the investigations were somewhat Marxism or the Nutritional Con- unwell n little "alcohol" (not a nent double whiskey) may take realm of me.c speculation. One unduly delayed. Not that earlier tent of Milk;

the mind from their distracting of the principal difficulties in enquiry would have prevented Or a single small fly in

the troubles and help them to con- coping with an epidemic of this this particular outbreak, but it eye;

centrate on the road, and so particular kind is that by the is conceivable that, under time the occurrence of the dis- different circumstances, delay . Or a single small stomach- drive better. This is certainly ease has been discovered, the might have resulted in prevent-ache, produced by over-eating; true of speech-making and other harm has already been done. able spread of the disease. Or a single emotional dis mental work, and may well be Tentification of the particular Moreover, once the gravity of turbance, such as that which true of the road.

Certainly, the physiologista bacillus which spreads the dis- the situation became evident, the follows a betrothal, a jilting, a ense is not possible by mere Government could have taken domestic row, the loss of a job, must go a little further. Incom

advertised experiments may be suspected medium. Elaborate fidence. Exactly a week ago, jattention and control! laboratory tests are accessary, the authorities promised the Dr. W. H Hay says that even hurinful, since they tend suggest that neat double with the result that the effluxion early release of a preliminary gluttons who eat a heavy meal to of time renders it impossible to report, which might have allay with an improper combination of whiskeys are the only bad habit overtake 111 outbreak. "Buted public anxiety to some extent, starches-and-sugars and proteins, the driver need avoid. In fact, whilst this is so, it follows that and which, it was understood, and feel very sleepy afterwards, if statistics are to be trusted, it in might be said that it is the sober the more promptly the occur- would have taken only a matter have in their fermenting

substance which is driver who is the danger. In rence or suspicion of the disease of a day or two to draft. That teriors a

Ia #1 drunk 1935, of 8,730 drivers (including is made known, the more quick report was never issued, and itjalcohol. "This ly can investigations be com- is worthy of note that the state-all right, a starch drunk, for the horse- and eyele "drivers") who menced, with enhanced possi-ment which Dr. Wellington laid alcohol manufactured after such were "involved in fatal acci- bilities of checking the further on the Council table yesterday in meal is produced in exactly the dents," only forty-six were spread of the disease. This is a contained practically nothing strong argument in favour of that could not have been made making dysentery a notifiable public a week ago. With regard! disease. Whether, in the out-to the measures which the. break under notice, more fre- Government is taking with a quent and rigorous inspection by view to guarding against health officers at the source of further outbreult. we welcome the trouble, or the observance of the announcement that investi- at stricter measures of control on gations are being centred the part of the Dairy Farm Com-present on a search for human pany, would have prevented the carriers amongst Dairy Farm! outbreak can only be a matter employees, and for possible con- of opinion. It is, however, tamination by water and/or possible that had compulsory flies. There is, however, no in-ga pasteurisation of milk been in dicution that the authorities in- force, the tragic happenings tend to implement these which have caused so much quiries either by stricler inspec public concern would never have tion of dairies on their own part, taken place. Unpasteurised milk or by the Imposition of more is, without qucation, a potential rigorous regulations on such source of danger, Dairying con- concerns. In their own in- cerns therefore have to shoulder terests, no less than that of the

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found to be under the in- fluence of drink or drugs.

Too many I agree. But what was the matter with the others?

P.S.-Ten minutes ago

She

I gave the innocent girl a strong gin-cocktail. has now done the sentence again. Time, one minute five seconds: only three, mistakes!

The second comment is that

probably they would

have driven faster at the fourth and fifth attempt if they had bad ten Instead of whiskey, They were operating an instrument with which they were not familiar: they had three trials before the whiskey, and with every trial naturally acquired more confidence. Without be ing a physiologist, I can assure the British Association that the natural tendency of the human being is to increase the speed ut which he performs any nicchanical action, especially if it is new to him,

The better I know a piece of music the faster I play it; and If I accompanied a chorus im- mediately after breakfast 1 should be told, as usual, by all the singers that I was playing too st. My secretary, like everybody else, has been trained in the crazy theory that speed is the only thing that matters. The faster she types the more mistakes she makes; and it la quite unnecessary to give her double whiskeys.

*

I have just conducted an interesting experiment upon my secretary. It is 10.30 B.. (Monday morning). The girl is dead sober. She has not touch- ed alcohol for days. She had tea for breakfast. I wrote down this noble sen- from memory tence from one of Mr. Hilaire Belloc's books:

"It will be generally con- ceded that an underground river, flowing with Lerrific force through a region of porennial fire, must of neces kity form a most insecure foundation for any large body of masonry; and the difficul- ty of building upon such · a bottom will be the more apparent if the materials used in the construction of the edifice are insufliciently cemented through the busi- ness capacity of a contractor indifferent to the voice of conscience."

I asked

Seventy-three words. the young lady to type these words "at her ordinary pace," and not stop for mistakes. She did not know what was in my mind. Results:

First time

1 minute 12 geconch-2 mis- takes.

Second time

1 minute 5 seconds-4 mis- takes,

Third time

1 minute 7 seconds-6 mis- takes.

(But here she stopped twice

to correct mistakes, so the time was really less.)

Fourth time

1 minute 3 seconds-7 mis- takes.

was

All this, I undertake, is true, Observe, then--the last run the fastest and had the most mistakes. She said that she thought she was typing at the same pace all the time. (Dr. Vernon made a great point of the

fuct that his whiskey- sodden victims did not know they were driving faster.)

So that I have produced pre- 18 the physiologist without the use of whiskey.

LANGUAGE OF THE NAVY cisely the same result

PITFALLS FOR THE LANDSMAN'

one

beller

And my conclusion stands-- Speed is the Danger.

But the good physiologist will say, "We gave our victims four ounces of whiskey as an extreme measure to prove our point. Our point is that even

a single small dose of alcohol in a small way diminish

mav

attention and control". correct among sallors, unless they

a tremendous responsibility in community generally, we should URING the present visit of the son"-ar carrying on their trade. There imagine that reputable dairies D Home Fleet to the Firth of Forth calling her "Welle," if you want to are those who say that even would welcome such action. The there will be one or two opportunities copy the caflors is said to have pasteurisation of itself cannot Dairy Farm Co. has, in fact, for Edinburgh clllzens to show how urlsen when a Fleet Street Journalist, reading a naval signal in which, for guarantee complete immunity promised its full co-operation much they know about ships. from infection. That it is in such measures as the Govern suggest a few expressions which the articles were naturally missed out, the definite It may not be amiss, therefore, to the sale of brevity. As Jandsman valuable safeguard, however, ment decide to undertake.

should avoid using in tumbled to the conclusion that the "the" was incorrect. The printed presence of sailors, and also there can be no question. But to compulsory pasteurization of the if absolute assurance of non-milk and the making of dysen- one or two which the landsmin works of many British admirals, although the "the" is possibly in- infection cannot be provided, it tery a notifiable disease, these should not be surprised at hearing alive and dead, however, show that

on board ship. is at any rate the business both matters could surely have been

One of the easiest ways of giving correct In Fire! Street, it is quite of Government and of dairies to brought before the Executive the captain of a battleship a nasty. sce that every precaution is Council Immediately the serious stabbing pain in the back of the want to save time. taken to reduce the known risks ness of the epidemic was made neck is to refer to the battleship as "On the Beach" to a minimum. In other words, apparent, instead of being held a "boat." Light-hearted naval officers may occasionlly refer to battleships

When a sailor, by the way, speaks but nothing pains sailor should be such as to ensure that ence thereto. This outbreak the

The "on the beach" for the last ten the milk shall pass from the cow has been, a terrible business, misuse of this term "boat. to the consumer under conditions The community has paid heavily fact that the dictionary, quite rightly years, you must not picture

defines a ship as a three-masted| distinguished flag officer as living in which involve a minimum of for the lessons which have been sailing vessel, square-rigged on all a hut on a strip of sand along the The term "brach," in the intermediary human contact. learned. And apprehension will three mosts, may have something to foreshore. On the question of whether the not be completely allayed until do with the landsman's inability to language of the Royal Navy,

recognise H.M.S. Nelson as a ship. braces all the land-covered portions Government acted as promptly there is definite evidence of the Nevertheless, a ship is the correct of the globe. as it might have done, it is to enforcement of measures which thing to call her.

There is another odd phrase that be conceded that the health will ensure to the public, as far There is, of course, no harm in sailom use, although it is unlikely to authorities may have been justi-as that is humanly possible, a referring to H.M.S. Nelson as "the be heard in a ship open lo viellore. Nelson." The modern · habit of The phrase is heard at its best when fied, at first in regarding the out- guarantee of the purity of Its missing out the "the", and chum- the order is given "All hands clean break as nothing more than a food supplies.

mily speaking about her as "Nel- (Continued on Page 5.1

the measure of control required up as at present for early refer- as "buttjebo so much us the of a retired admirol as having been

the

Agreed again. But is this worth giving lectures and mak- ing speeches about-unless, as well, you name the many other causes which diminish attention and control and reduce the rapidity and accuracy of the highly-skilled muscular move- ments, &c.?

For example, u single small wife on the back seat, telling her husband how to drive:

Or a shiglo small single woman beside the driver, with her arm round his neck or her hand on his knee;"