The Walking Wounded
A schoolgirl I know fell off a seesaw in Regent's Park the Saturday before last and hurt her arm. Next morning she was still in some pain, so her mother took her round to a big London hospital, having first of all ascertained that they were prepared to deal with urgent casualties on a Sunday. She was, she says, in some doubt as to whether she was really justified in asking them to treat her daughter as an urgent casualty, but she need not have worried. There were only two other out-patients there. One was a man with corns. The other was a man suffering from shock. He was gasping and trembling, had already fainted. twice, and proclaimed that at any moment he was going to faint again. In one shaking hand he clutched a registered letter; it announced that he. had won £90,000 in a football pool.
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