HYSTERICAL WOMEN

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1932, Page 8

HYSTERICAL WOMEN

OVERCROWDED DANCE

LONDON, March 3

Women became hysterical and rushed the cloakroom at tthe City 'Hall at Hull, aft the breaking up of a dance at 1 o’clock in the morning. The dance, which was organised by the Hull Cooperative Society in aid of the Lord Mayor’s Hospital Sunday Fund, was attended by about 3000, which is far in excess of the hall’s dancing capacity. When exhibition dancing was taking place excited young women squabbled for seats- on which others were standing. In one part pt the hall six or seven girls claimed one table, ‘and when ‘they all .jumped on it the table collapsed and they fell in a heap. When the dance ended the female cloakroom attendants were quite unable to cope with the impatient queue. Girls and women shotted out the numbers ol their 'tickets in noisy chorus, and when two or three jumped on the counter intending to get their own coats, and hats, there was an immediate push through the barriers, and hats and coats were thrown odt. In the Stampede two women collapsed •and received medical attention at a hospital, and others fainted. The police were called in and carried the /clothes in piles to the- hall, wherethey were occupied until 4 o’clock in themorning distributing 'them to the owners bv shouting out tji-e ticket- nuinbeis.