Numbers: `THE ANAESTHETIST' From: The Independent - London | Date: February 24, 1995 | Copyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Today is Friday 24 February.

Twenty-four is the number of hours in a day, scruples in an ounce, grains in a pennyweight and blackbirds baked in a pie. It is also the carat number of pure gold.

Twenty-five, however, is the number of recorded sightings in England (according to a House of Lords debate on 7 February 1995) of the New Zealand flatworm.

Already widespread in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the flatworms, according to Lord Carter (Labour) "go round in gangs and the...

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