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Bell ringers' bruises and broken bones: capers and crises in campanology
1Department of Radiology, Leicester Royal Infirmary.
BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.)
|December 22, 1990
Abstract
Objective:
To determine the incidence, aeriology, and outcome of injuries due to bell ringing.
Design:
Retrospective review of the last six years' issues of Ringing World, advertisement in Ringing World, and a postal questionnaire sent to 20 active ringing towers.
Subjects:
Regular bell ringers.
Results:
Seventy nine injuries were identified both from review and by advertisement in Ringing World. The incidence of injury among 221 ringers identified by postal questionnaire was 1.8% a year.
Conclusion:
Although sonerous, bell ringing can be dangerous and occasionally even fatal. Doctors should be aware of the dangers to which campanologists expose themselves.