Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-07-11

mp IN the lower part of the town, falls
from the seaffoll dliing and sis injured.
he crowd Which ga hers round the IN.
luretl man usually attracts the after ton
|sof tina policemen on the beat. # hen
he ascertains that some one has been in-
/ jureda he notifies the authorities at the
station house At times private per-
son who knows where the station house
y fsituated lay get % & III With the
news even before tina officer
knows Of the occurrence. The infer
nation is then telegraphed or tele-
phoned from the station house to police.
headq uarters, whence Sit is conveyed by.
teleph To. the hospital in the district
in which the accident has happened.
III it happens to have occurred in the
district to which the Chambers street
branch Of the New York Hospital is siit-5
uated, and the news is received there, q
call is sent TO the ambulance stables ii
Duane street. There are three callslto
those stables, the first, for the ambn-
lance 10 come to- the hospital door; the
second, for the ambulance to wait for
the surgeon at the stables the third ].
for it to wait for HIM
at the corner Of Broadway and.
Chambers street. There are two ans
balances attached to ] this hospital.
During the day one 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 hos pital, or the
surgeon meets it at the stables or at the
other rende zvous, rarely more than two
minutes elapse between the call and the
time the surgeon is in his seat. At
night both horses are nnhitched, but
they are harm essed on the system adopted
by the fire department so thatvery little
time is lost. The surgeon once aboard
the ambulance is off for the scene OF the
accident. It will have 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-
nation to the hospital, or, more properly
speaking, to the station house. This
may cover twenty minutes or more, and
in some cases q delay Of twenty minutes
is serious matter 49, &s%
r. In this city there are seven hospitals
/ to which ambulances are attached, viz:
The New York Hospital, the Chambers
street branch of the New York Hospital
ST. Vincent's, Z. 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 q case of q 'hurry
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 we're 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. .4E
Each ambulance is fitted up with a
sliding mattress, boxes for splints,
enletics, 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
5roduced patients were carried to hos
pitfalls on stretchers, as they are still in
London and Paris. #.E j.