Feliciana sentinel., 1892-09-10
,spec,u, Chicago Correspondeno~l

wounded condition fully one-half nt-
orally bleed to death.
1t is a broad and alarming statement,
but the physician claimed to be famli-
lar with the facts, and backed up his
assertion with reasons. In most cases
Of accidents with which the police have
to deal blood flows freely and the most
important thing in giving immediate
temporary relief is to stop the hem
orrhaee. Instead of that in most cases
the first to handle an injured person
are some police officers who have not
the slightest idea how to proceed, and
if they had the idea, have not the
means vherewith to carry 1t out 50
far from relieving an injured person
they will frequently compel him to
climb into the patrol wagon ana there
often make him SIT up on the hard
seats. Then follows a ride, sometimes
of miles over rough pavements and on
= vehicle not at all built with u view
to comfort. and by the time the county
hospital is reached the sufferer mas lost
so much blood that hc is too weak 70
undergo an operation or any OF the
other things necessary to put MI" IN
the way of recovery.
heoinninc has been made towards
remcdying this evil and giving Chicago
what no city ought to be without,
namely, an ambulance relief service.
handsome ambulance wagon mas
been constructed which is quite pre-
tcntious looking arrangement 1t
has a handsome black top; the body OF
the wagon has panels in red and blue
and bearing the words: Patrol, Po-
lice Departmept.'' Inside there is sus-
pended in straps stretcher with
spiral spring at either end, preventing
any very serious jolting or swayinR IN
either direction.
| This ambulance is great improve
ment. But there is no relief corps OF
trained men to go with it. And what
is one wagon for city OF one million.
FIVE hundred Thousand inhabitants and
covering one hundred and seventy five
square miles of territory? But it is all
coming. The beginning has been
made, which is always the most difficult;
the rest will follow. For the world S
fair there will be an extensive relief
and ambulance service organized.
This will be confined to the world S
fair grounds, but it Is hoped 1t Will
form the nucleus of a similar service
for the city of Chicago :.
This reminds me again OF the old
saying that one has t. go away IRON
home to hear the news 1t was through
a Vienna paper that learned that al
! emissary has been sent to Europe by
} the boards of health of the state of Hi
, nois and the city of Chicago for the
purpose of studying the sanitary pro
visions of the principal cities with I
view of adopting the best among then
/. for Chicago. Among other things thi
1 emissary-Dr. Lewis was his name,
: think--studied the life saving and re
, lief corps of Vienna. which has serve
as a model for many other cities.
:. The ambulance for the city OF CHI
1 caco is the work of few women. No
= in the sense that the wagon was bull
by female labor, but the mun'clpa
II authorities were induced by the resc
d lutte efforts of few women to max
: this provision for injured persons
r, is one of those matters in which
l, men like to see women engaged, w whetf
d er they are believers in what is calle
t. women's rights or not.
ID Iuse the word women purposely.
h don't like the word ladies. OF cours
the women who did this work are Il
S. dies. But, above all, they are womel
70 1t always seems to me that II a woma
h tries to be a woman she has enoue
or work to fill her life comforta bly,, eve
as a man has enough to do If he ju
r. planation of the nse Of the word woms
We when speaking of the persons referr'
he to. some of whom belong to the be
society of Chicago.
gs Another noteworthy achievement
nd these women has only lately be-
xt brought about. They have secured o
ne free bathing place for boys
RS 1t may appear strange to people n
he accustomed to Chicago to be told tn
lily with a water front of twenty-fo
ng miles and the finest sheet of frc
nut water i'm aginable there has never be
tut a bathhouse or any bathing along I
shore of Lake Michigan. There l
slight modification required for
he statement. There used to be cou
of shanties at the foot of Illinois a
the Indiana streets where you could bat
.el' but very few people knew of them q
the they were away beyond the ordiu;
of walks of citizens. To say that tn
IL has been no bathing is also not qr
ust correct. There was always more
cep less-pencrally less-but 1t was alw
i'm by stealth. Boys who went in die
at the risk of being arrested, for tn
tile is a CITY ordinance prohibiting bath
lisy along the water front. And why?
ded cause somebody's modesty might
ked shocked. That is the only reason.
lur- for that reason thousands upon u
sands of boys and meh, and girls
IRA for that matter. were prevented Il
into seeking refuge from the heat OF
den mer and the fumes and dirt of the
Sit in the cooling and cleansing water
ped Lake Michigan.
'ner 1t is not only question OF CONT
If we ever get plenty of public bat
Ieri- am firmly convinced the death
and will diminish and epidemic or
demic diseases will find
OF more limited field of operation In
ear city, for cleanliness Is the gree
ex- ,+or ~ health next to rati
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