Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 2 | No One Wanted Box 13

no one wanted box 13 in no other western european coun try Is superstition so prevalent as in austria hungary quite recently the chamberlain s office changed the num ber of box 13 in the imperial opera house and the imperial court theater to because the p objected to bitting in a box bearing this unlucky number none ot the rich subscribers who takes a box for the year wanted no 13 and for single performances it was just as hard to dispose of this superstition reaches its height in medicine the health exhibition dr Heinrich brun declared that in many instance superstition and especially local superstition was an absolute menace to public health in the austrian hosp atals 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 Manen bad bastein and other famous austrian cure wants to begin his cure on a friday