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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1937.

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WEDNESDAY, Aгau. 28. 1937.

COLLECTIVE ACTION ACAINST DISEASE

When sailing ships gave place to steamships in the last cen- tury, not only did passengers travel more casily and safely- so also did disease. Great Bri- tain and other Western coun- tries were menaced with cholera and other plagues brought by ships from the East, and each country tried to protect itself with quarantine rules of its They did not succeed. Trade was delayed and disease still entered freely and fre- quently. Each epidemic after 1851, was followed by an Intor- national Conference and it soon became clear that only by hav

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The

METHUSELAH TEST

Give yourself marks for each ques- lion was instructed, and 'keep your When you have answered all of them add the total. Divide thin total by 5. The result is approximale-, ly how old you will live to be,

were your grand- 1 How old

mothers and grandfathers (m both sides of your family) when they died? Add up their ages when they died, and divide by ten. If any of them are still alive, set their age

down as can't exactly seventy. If you remember the ages, guess as

2 Marl

4

from one

to

closely as possible. Mark yourself twenty-five on the basis of the health of your vital organs (heart, lungs, stomach, liver, blood glands etc.). If you have any organic disease or vital de- fect do

mark not

yourself higher than

ten. If you've never had anything but colds, measles, etc., and never been i a hospital or for more than a few days, you may put down twenty-five.

Mark down from one to twenty- Ave the degree of hazard or danger in

your occupation or activities.

If you drive a car take off Ave of onee." It you travel much, take off another Ave. If you work at any oc- cupation with life risk, take off another five. If you are some- what of a reckless temperament, take off another.

Mark down from one to twenty- five how sedentary your work and hablis are.

you sli

an oflee or stand in a shop all day, or stay at home without much physical work to do, you cannot mark yourself higher than ten,

more

5 How many hours per week can you honestly say that you spend outdoors? (Don't mark than 35 in any circumstances, i Mark yourself from i to 25 on Moderation In eating. If you eat meat more than once a day. you can't mark yourself more than 10. nor if you are

fre- quently subject to indigestion. eunstipation, bitiousness headaches,

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in of

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and an international body administer it could the nations be freed from dauger. It took forty years to persuade Govern- ments to face the facts and ac- cept international control. This they did at long last 1892. Since the invention wireless and the creation of the League of Nations it has become possible to fight disease by an easier and cheaper international method. As the Far East is the danger spot, the League has established an Eastern Office of its Health Organisation at Singapore. This office is in contact with some 180 ports all over the Indian and Pacific Oceans and receives from those ports and supplies to them by wireless rapid notification re- garding epidemics. To show how the League Office works au example may be taken of a ship from China arriving, say, at Sydney which is known to have touched during its voyage at n port where a number of cases of plague have occurred since the ship left. The rais on board may therefore be infected.

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if you

Mark down how many pounds under cleven and a balf stone you weigh (if you are a man); and how many pounds under ten stone (If you are a woman). weigh more than these figures penalise yourself by subtracting from your figure for Question 0 the number of pounds you weigh above eleven and a half stone or ten stone, How many glasses of alcoholic drinks can you honestly say you drink on the average dur- ing week? Subtract this figure from 35 and mark down the result. If the number of drinks per week is more than 35, subtract this number from your figure for Question 7. Mark yourself from 1 for your ability to

relax or bablts of relaxation. If you are one of those who do not or find It difficult to relax, then you cannot mark yourself___higher. than 5. How many diversions or hob- bies have you which you use for relaxation? Count only those which either take you in the open air, or do not require sti posture or tension, and which

you

do make from your regular

things

to

25

That

are dire activities. (Bridge or parties, or lodges and organisations or night clubs, etc., are not to be Included, as they require, a cer- tuin amount of mental, sociul or muscular tension).

How many hours of sleep do you get every night before 3 a.m.? Multiply this figure by

5.

12 How many hours per week of

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athletic excrelse do you take?

How many cups of coffee or tea per day do you drink? Sub- tract this number from 25.

Mark yourself from 1 to 25 as

to how much worrying you do habitually. If you are the kind of person who has a good deal of anxiety and has a habit of worrying mark yourself higher than 5, Then take your figure and subtract it from 25.

of

no

read this first

IF you

are an

(or

average man woman), then you will live till you are fifty-seven.

But nobody is absolutely average. And there is no reason why You should not Ive quite a bit longer than statistics allow you.

15 Mark yourself from 1 to 25 nc-

ог

cording to how much love and affection you feel for one more of the opposite sex, or for children, or for people. In general, or for life as a whole. (You can choose which, accord- ing to which rates highest). you are one of those who are not deeply. emotionally in- terested in any of these ond dre cynical about life, put down

zero,

First of all, here is a test which, If you follow It conscientiously, will tell you round about what age you will die. At the same time, most of the fifteen questions it asks gives you sume sound ndvice which should help you to increase that age. If it comes. out that you haven't as long to live as you would like, then these ques-

you your

tions give the "Melhuseion test"

Naturally,

cannot be regarded as scientifically accurate, and therefore shouldn't be taken too seriously; but it gives

neral indication, and in any rough general

the case the mere answering of quesTM tlons is a good mental exercise. They based on research work by psychologists and doctors, and one of the questions is supplied by a doctor who recently died at the age of a hundred.

are

The age is arrived at by n system of marking, which at first may look attle complicated, but which is, in fael, quite simple.

Another

bit

of

red on the

F

Did

map

you

know we

had a new sinall pro-

a middle-aged man with a thick, long beard, would make an ex- cellent valet for him. He decid- ed to play for him.

The wheel was spinning. The bearded man was about to an- nounce "Rien ne va plus" when he found himself being lifted bodily from his chair and being placed on red (an even money chance).

One of the red numbers won

**

The local tradespeople are do- ing their utmost to have the casino closed. It appears that the English spend all the money there that they might be spend- ing in the shops.

DURING the peak sen- son, now just finish- ing, there are about 1,500 visi- tors.

Seventy per cent. of these are English. Women outnum- ber the men by rather more than two to one.

Apart from the strident Eng- lish voice and hoarse laugh, one

the oven-

would not notice their nation-

ality especially in

They deck themselves up in

Tyrolean blouses and skirts, and

vince where you fightings. your best friend after a drink?

OUR years ago, in a Kitzbuhel cafe, I asked a waiter for a dry Martini. He brought me three* (bless

him!).

·

At that same cafe the other day I made the same request: "Very good, sir," came the ans- wer. "With or without angostura bitters?"

It is the same in the shops. One's exit is no longer followed by that sweet lilting Austrian "Auf wiedersehen," but by the formal "Good bye, Sir!" of the English grocer.

Kitzbuhel has become thoroughly Angli- cised. Plumbers have been busy all, the summer installing new baths, for it is well known that the English are a dirty race. They have to bathe

at least once a day.

now

on the

BACON-AND-EGGS are

breakfast menu of every hotel and pension. Large stock of whisky have been im ported for the first time.

A casino, to gratify the well-worn English theory "Man is by nature a gambling animal" does a flourishing trade. A supply of kippers from Lowestoft is ordered each week by the "Goldene Gems" cafe.

try their utmost to resemble the local farmers' daughters.

The main sport is ski-ing. The funicular, however, is quite inadequate to deal with the in-

creased popularity of the place. The "bucket" only takes nineteen people every

twelve Strap-hanging on minutes. the Ilford line must be com- fortable in comparison.

SKIING is the least

snobbish and most exhilarating of all sports. It. is as easy to wrench a knee or leg on the nursery slopes as it is on the steepest run,

break

¿

In fact,

a non-participant

sitting on a shooting-stick at the foot of the nursery slopes had her leg broken in seven places.

A skier, out of control and unable to stop, went slap into ber.

I heard, when I arrived, that girl had killed herself coming. down the Fleck. She fell, and

the end of her ski-stick went through her lung. There is, on average, one leg broken a day..

We try to pretend that we are masters of our akis. I disagree. We are their slaves. They would take me whizzing down the mountainside, stopping, turning at the right places, with- out a fall.

Even sleepy little nearby Kirchberg, which marks the finish of one of the ski-runs, has come under our influence.

Little boys from the local oife day when I was being shav- into trees, make me sit down On others they would send me school hover round the church ed there.

"What a wonderful singer," I hard on icy patches, tangle them- (where one takes off one's skis

Intrane bus balsin that the will be presented with the rats coming on shore, and Health Organisation publishes the buxom young maid who

I know I think really better than there

is no watter from National notions de va Amy timent of my Dusmine as to the goods

nors fraising th

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Sole Agents:

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Singapore broadcasts the news quarantine. In this way the which is picked up in Australia League has saved the world's and the health authorities in shipping many thousands informed. As pounds by helping them Sydney are consequence, on the ship's ar-cape the expenses and delays of quarantine. Besides such in- rival steps are taken to prevent telligence work, the League's

possibly infecting the shore rats an International Health Year with lngue. The ship, is moor-Book showing the progress made in the collective fight against ed some distance off the quay.

disense. It also arranges for side, the cargo unloaded in study tours of administrative ratproof sheds and each bale or health authorities who are thus stack of cargo examined and any able to exchange views and have rats destroyed. The ship is, if access to the latest and most necessary, fumigated before and scientific methods of fighting, after unloading the cargo. At and preventing disease. Thus the same time Singapore has the League renders great ser- given the warning to all ships vice to the cause of health by co-ordinating the efforts and in the Far East who can con-pooling the experiences of all sequently steer clear of the in-those engaged in the ceaseless fected port and thus avoid war against discase...

to carry them to the bus stop or remarked, in German. I relapsed selves in front and throw me on station),rush up on one's arrival into English to ask whether it my head. to

THE best part of any "No, sir," he replied proudly,

ski-run is the end, and ask, "Carry your skis, sir?" was a he or a she,

THE only two people who

also in English, "it is a canary." the excellent light Austrian when one sits in à pub drinking cheered me up were

THE only place in Kitz beer, tired but relaxed at last,

buhel whore looked after my room and the

the happy in the consciousness that spenking of English is in any no bones have been broken. barber who lived next door.

Whenever I spoke, in my un- way frowned upon is the rather A band, with vocalist croon- orthodox German, to the maid dingy, one-room casino. Here ing a l'anglaise, churns out the she would blush, giggi vio- one speaks French;

latest American- and English lently, and scamper off to pro- It is unlike any casino that I dance hits. (One feels the duce the thirteen-year-old have ever been in. There is strangeness of dancing a fox-trot daughter of the house--an in- none of the stolid hear-a-pin- in heavy, sodden rubber-soled telligent youngster, who dili- drop atmosphere, and "immadu, boots!) gently learned English out of a late evening dress" is conspl- At half-past six the masculine school-book most of the day. cuously absent. Betting is not inclination for stronger refresh-

The barber had in his shop a high.

ment (to coin a phraso) rears its fina canary. It was in full song The most famous scene in it ugly head. Cocktails an very took place last year. A friend expensive. I always used to take The joke is that "dry" sounded of mine decided that one of thethe local white wine (7d. a quar...

croupiers at the roulette-table,

(Continued vn Page. 4.)

the same as "drel" which is German

for 'three.