Show no one wanted box 13 in no other western european coun try ie is superstition so prevalent as in Au austria hungary quite recently the chamberlain chamberlains s office changed the num ber of box 13 in the imperial opera house and the imperial court theater to because the public objected to sitting in a box bearing this unlucky number none ot of the rich subscribers who takes a box for the year w wanted anted no 13 and for single performances it was just as hard to dispose of this superstition reaches its height in medicine speaking at the health exhibition dr heinrich Heln rich grun declared that in many instances superstition and especially local superstition was an absolute menace to public health in the austrian hospitals one finds no block or pavilion 13 no ward 13 no staircase 13 very few patients will consent to be operated upon on the thirteenth day of the month and in this respect friday too is consid ered just as unlucky at carlsbad Marlen Marien bad gasteen and other famous austrian cure resorts nobody wants to begin his cure on a friday |