First-Aid Service
Sir,—At Lancaster Park last Saturday in No. 4 stand a man took an epileptic fit. My friend and I were asked to get a first-aid man. My friend raced to the first-aid room, which was locked. So we raced round the park looking for a policeman. Finally we got a policeman to come to the stand and seemingly from nowhere a firstaid man appeared. It was over half an hour before the man was moved. I consider this a let-down in Christchurch’s first-aid service. If a man had had a sudden heart attack there on Saturday he would have had little chance ot survival. Surely there could be a firet-aid man or at least a policeman on duty at each stand. I am certain that I and many others would feel a lot safer.— Yours, etc, UNFIT RUNNER. March 18. 1963. (The secretary of the Victory Park Board (Mr K. N. McGillivray) said: “Representatives of the ambulance brigade and the police were in attendance throughout the match.”]
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 3
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