SLEEP AND BE HEALTHY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5375, 16 January 1929, Page 4

SLEEP AND BE HEALTHY.

LONDON DOCTOR’S ADVICE.

8 TO 9 H©URS FOR ADULTS

Dr. Sthilii Churchill, repeating the paying that a man slept six ho.urs, a woman seven, a child eight, and a fool nine, remarked at thej Institute of Hygiene, London, recently, “ I am glad to say I am numbered among the f 0015,.” After the age of three huppan beings did not require daylight sleep, except oji Sundays, when the national bad; habit of over-eating, made them drowsy. t The more one ate, more sleep was required. For nn average person Dr. Churchill advocated between eight and nine hours’ sleep .Growing children should sleep on a hard mattress, and the-bed should never, be placed against a wall.

“lOae’s judgment is impaired by lac,k of sleep. Girls havq married the wrong man and refused to marry the right one because their judgment has been at faul t following sleepless night-. Men go. to bed in pyjamas buttoned up to their neck, and they are not so healthy for, it Women, who. wear .lighter night attire, derive a benefit from it.

People should not be awakened fr.oni sleep,” said Dr. Churchill, “We are S;tiil suffering'from the mid-Victorian idea that there is something shameful about being asleep, as exemplified in the hymn about the sluggard who is disinclined to. wake up. I think an association for the abolition of breakfast bells in boardinghouses should be formed. The; effect of being wakened rudely is to jar the nervous system and leave the person thus wakened unfit to face the troubles of the (|ay.”