By the London Post. April 1, 1974, before and after.

Abstract

AS I was driving to the hospital on April 1, I was interested to learn from my radio that April Fool's Day came to be so named because of a medieval practice of allowing insane persons to be abroad on that day. On arriving at the hospital, I was therefore much relieved to see no evidence of any disturbed persons and no sign of any outward change, although the Management Committee and the Regional Hospital Board had disappeared overnight and had been replaced by an Area Health Authority and a Regional Health Authority in the quiet coup that finally marked . . .