GLENAVY RAILWAY STAT ON BURNT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 66

GLENAVY RAILWAY STAT ON BURNT.

OAMAR.U, January 22. \ The Tailway station "at Glenavy was Ues-". troyei by fire this afternoon. Owing to j interruption of the telegraph wires particulars are scarce, and. are limited to wnat the express train passengers saw" as-tney passed. The ..station, at " 5 ..o'clock, ■ was >* almost entirely destroyed," and H;he heat, had been co intense that it had communicated itself to the rails, "'buckling them, up in one place to the extent" of about six inches " and allowing the sleepers 'to take fire~-and burn faeely % The trains 'had to be crossed on one of the sidings. ~ 'Nothing is known of .how the fire "originated or'whether anything was'-eaved. (a)' In the .Temperance^ section of the "United Kingdom Temperance and Genera! .Provident Institution," the mortality (for the year 1906). was 65 per cent. -of the,. expected, and. the amount paid 53| per- cenft. ;-- whilst .in the Geenra] section, the mortality -was 86per cent, of ' the and the money paid Bi,per"cent/" ' '...'," - ', " (b) Sir Victor' Horsley. has, pointed out^that . in seven 'great general,' hospitals jn'" London j -the :"annual "expenditure" on alcohol lias . de-_; ,creasea, in "recent yeaTs" froin-jfiBOOO to : jfi3ooo, ■ , whilst' the-' expenditure-.in'milkc has ' increased I. from- =e3ooo' to' JBOOO/ -"- ..-- r- ;> ,v. - -' -' " -,'Ay-he /London" T-emperance^ Hospital-- has a death-iate 6iper''cent."lower -fliaJi in any other ! hospital :iix! England. -, During the" last -33 years,- Jout -of the" 24,650- patients, treated,- it - was found necessary to administer alcohol to ISgfi]^^ ■""- '~f r - • - • -