The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-18

up in the lower part of the town, falls
from the scaffolding and is injured.
The crowd which gathers round the in
3ured man usually attracts the attention
OF the policemen on the beat. When
he ascertains that some one has been in
Jured he notifies the authorities at the
station house. At times a private per-
son who knows where the station house
Is situated may get to it with the
news even before the officer
knows of the occurrence. The infor-
nation is then telegraphed or tele-
phoned from the station house to police
headquarters, whence it is conveyed by
telephone to the hospital in the district
in which the accident has happened.
1t it happens to have occurred in the
district to which the Chambers street
branch Of the New York Hospital is sit
uated, and the news is received there, a
call is sent to the ambulance stables in
Duane street. There are three calls to
those stables, the first, for the ambu-
lance to come to the hospital door; the
second, for the ambulance to wait FOR
the surgeon at the stables; the third,
for it to welt for him
at the orner of Broadway and
Chambers street. There are two am
balances attached to this hospital.
During the day n of them is ready to
start on the instant the call is sounded,
the horse being in harness and the drivl
er on his seat. and no matter whether it
be driven at once to the hospital, or the
surgeon meets it at the stables or at the
other rendezvous, rarely more than two
minute elapse between the call and the
time the surgeon is inshis seat. At
night 10th horses are unhitched, but
they are %harnessed on the system adopted
by the fire department, so that very little
time is lost. The surgeon once aboard
the ambulance is offfor the scene of the
accident. 1t willhave been noticed that
any delay in extending help to the in
injured under this system is due to the
clumsy manner of conveying the infor-
mationt to the hospital, or, more properly
speaking, to the station house. This
may cover twenty minutes or more, and
in some cases a delay Of twenty minutes
Is a serious matter.
In this city there are seven hospitals
to which ambulances are attached, viz:
AHo " A1oSplthl, iIlc olidIlDeIS
street branch Of the New York Hospital
St. Vincent's, Bellevue, the Ninety
Ninth street branch of Bellevue, the
Presbyterian, and the Roosevelt. The
calls which come from police head
quarters are divided. into ordinary and
"hurry up" calls. in case of q "hvry
up" call, the spot where the accident
has occurred is reached with the utmost
speed, the ambulance Sliding right
up to use the expressive phrase of the
ambulance surgeons. This speed of
course could not be attained were it
not that the ambulance has the right of
way over every class of vehicles except
ing the vehicles of the United States
mail and of the fire department.
Each ambulance is fitted up with q
sliding mattress, boxes for splints,
emetics, %antidotes and instruments for
stopping hemorrhage. The service has
existed here about eight years, and not
being any way connected with politics,
is highly efficient. Before it was in
troduced patients were carried to hos
pitfalls on stretchers, as they are still in
London and Paris.