The morning call., 1893-05-18
WAGONS WANTED.
DR.. Son1ers Asks for an
Ambulance.
MILK INSPECTOR.
DR.. BucIInaH Calls Attention to the
transportation of Cattle to
This Port.

The most interesting business before the
Board Of Health at its meeting yesterday
was the consideration of the report of Po-
lice Surgeon SomeTs. The Police Surgeon
asked in his report that a properly
equipued ambulance be furnished for the
special use Of the Receiving Hos pital
There is al present." he said, mo proper
81. 'rs OF transporting the injured from
the hosp tal to their homes or the various
ether hospitals. Neither the City ana
Cout.ty hospital nor the patrol wagons are
aTallable for t1is purpose. aud dependence
mas TO be made on express wagons and
other unsuitable conveyanceS. A proper
ambulance could be made largely self-sup-
porting, Tor there are a large number Of
persons brought to the Receiving Hospital
In emergency who would willingly pay lib
eraliy for propar means Of transportation
To their homes"
Dr. Regensburger heartily indorsed the
report, and said that the Receiving Hos
p-jal needed not only one but two am
Duiances, so that they could be used night
ana day. 1t was q crying shame to take
people from the hospital to their homes
"hen severely injured in an old team
Whlch ratified and Jared over the coDOle-
stones. The speaker also believed that
When Receiving Hospital am bulance
was called cut doctor should accompany
H. so a TO give emergency cases Immediate
attention. Many lives were lost because
immediate attention was not given TO the
patients. who often expired on the way TO
TIE hospital, when proper treatment
would save then. The doctor thought that
Tor the present one of the internes could
be detailed to accompany the ambulance.
Dr. Long also advocated the new propo-
slton and said that San Francisco was
proud OF everything but her institutions.
Mayor Ellert stated that he was in
- Ct an ambulance system.
The suggestion of the Police Surgeon
was unanimously adopted and it was de-
cided to recommend TO the Board of Su-
pervisors the creation Of au ambulance sys-
TEN Tor the Receiving Hospital.
The Police Surgeon also recommended
that salaries be increased as follows: Day
steward, SIS to $50 month; assistant
steward, $50 to SO; matTon, $50 to S7j i;
assistant matrQD, $40 10 $50. 1t was also
recommended that the allowance for food
to the hospital patients be Increased from
$50 10 $50 a month.
The recommendations were adopted by
the board.
Tie Police Surgeon estimated the ex-
penses of his Office for the next fiscal year
as follows: Salaries, S70S0; stationery
and printing, 500; provisions supplied
patients, $500; drugs. $500; dry goods,
$500; instruments. S120; miscellaneous,
$3.50; latest Improved model and equip
IA-NAb VI dilUulduGts GiDU, lHO HOAcbS,
$500; double harness, $50; maintenance,
living, $500; shoeing and repairs. S100; ;
driver, $500. Total. 81, $40.
Dr. Regensburger moved that milk in
SpeclOr be appointed without sa larry. He
said that one of the necessities Of the city
was a milk inspector, as was shown by
recent analyses made OF milk taken from
various dairies. He was on the point of
naming physician for the Office when
Ellert interrupted him, saying it
g 2atinc 10 dUtig5 OF q
II before any one was ap-
gould be an important Office.
1T want TO see any particular
after by physician who was
thout salary
agreed with the Mayor and
a committee of three be APP
define the duties of the pro-
inspector and fix the salary.
He saiu, would be impossible to get good
work for LGthing and there would be no
use OF havl7g an inspector unless good
work was done. DR.. Longs motion was
agreed to and Iayor Ellert appointed the
following as the committee: Drs. May,
Long and Regensburger and Health Officer
keeney.
Dr. Bucknall called attention to the
cruel shipment of cattle TO this port. He
SAID be had been Informed that cattle were
packed so tight that often the animals
were suffocated. Then their throats were
cut and they were taken 10 the slaughter
houses and SOLD for fresh meat He said
IT was a common thing for cattle to be
bruised and mangle6 on the journey.
DR.. Long said there was just as great
cruelty exhibited in the poutry-deaers'
treatment of chickens. He said his wife
had seen men in the markets pick the
feathers off chickens while they were yet
alive. This was cruel and barbarous and
should be stopped.
Mayor Ellert asked what was the mat
ter with the market inspectors, and said
that if they were not attending to their
duties il was high time that inspectors
were obtained who did.
1t was agreed to act on the subject at a
future meeting.