FOOTBALL ACCIDENTS.
You recorded a dislocated shoulder at football in Patea about a mouth ago. On Saturday last there was another accident at the same game : William Kitolling broke his collar bone, and Dr Keating’s aid had to be again invoked. It has been suggested that it would be advisable for the football club to form a fund to defray medical and other expenses of members who may meet with injury ; or the player might insure in the Accident Insurance Company. To make no provision for the occurence of accidents in a game where they are to be counted upon, as well as insured against, borders upon recklessness. Doctors are apt to say that the poorer members of a football club are the most unlucky, and that making the necessary repairs for them is a losing game for a doctor under present circumstances. Perhaps, from a medical point of view, there is less objection to wealthy persons playing the game and breaking limbs to their hearts’ content. Insurance.
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Patea Mail, 23 August 1881, Page 3
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