The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-27
THE PARIS AMBULANCE SYSTEM.
Careful Transfer Of Patients with Conta-
! Vious Diseases to the Hospital.

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Careful Transfer Of Patients with Conta-
gious Diseases to the Hospital.
The ambulances Of the De Stael and
Chalingly street stations in Paris have
four wheels provided with rubber tires
and are drawn by one horse The corners
are rounded in the interior, and the sheet
Iron sides are painted and vanished. They
contain flexible metallic seat for the
nurse and litter for the patient. A rub.
ber tube permits Of communication with
the driver. They include no drawers for
the carriage Of the clothing and bedding
Of the patient, this service being incum-
bent upon the dsinfecting station. In
winter they are heated with cylinders Of
hot water,
Each OF these vehicles is capable of carry.
ing one adult patient or two children af-
fiicted with the same contagious disease.
The ambulance is closed by the driver,
who must keep the key in his pocket, but
the door can be opened from the interior.
So no outsider can open it by nadvertance.
The litter put in use in the ambulance
stations OF Paris is jointed, so that the pa
tient can be either seated or placed in re-
clining posture without having to be dis
turbed 1t is arranged as an armchair for
descending stairways and as bed in the
ambulance The invalid rests on cushion
of pure horsehair, which can be passed
through the disinfecting stovean indefinite
period.
| The patient having been brought down
stairs the legs of the litter are placed upon
the rollers designed to facilitate its intro
duction OF removal through rails arranged
10 the vehicle This litter is made of iron
plate, painted and vanished. Apertures
give it greater lghtness. For children a
litter in the form of hand barrow is used
1t is easily seen that this apparatus can be
very easily disinfected.
The carriage is effected as follows; Each
station comprises superintendent, two
drivers and groom. The nurses, who are
| trained, put on for the carriage OF the
patient a long blouse of unbleached cotton,
| well adjusted to the neck and wrists, de
scending to the heels and buttoning all the
way down. The head covering is cotton
| cap, which ineloses the hair and falls upon
| the neck
| The road costume of the driver is blouse
and pair Of trousers of cotton worn over
\ bis ordinary clothing, and an oilcloth cap
which can be easily washed with disin.
! fecting solution.
The ambulanees may be ordered direct
by the public verbally, by letter, by tele-
graph or by telephone. As soon as the
notification is received the station superin-
tendent calls up the driver and nurse
through an electric bell, the number OF
strokes sounded giving the number of the
ambuances to be got ready The ambu-
/ lances, moreover, are always ready to start
and horse remains constantly harneSsed.
In the Office there is posted list showing
| to what hospital the patient will have to
be sent, according to the nature of his
| disease.
The ambulance must not stop at any
| point of its travel under any pretext what
ever. As soon as it has deposited the pa.
| tient at the hospital it must return to the
station, where it first enters the yard
set apart for dsinfection. This operation
is effected by means Of liquid pro
jected by a vaporizer The outer clothing
of the nurse and driver are placed in the
disinfecting stove. The ambulance and its
litter are afterward placed in the wagon
house The nurse, before retiring to hel
apartments, enters a room where she
makes her toilet with disinfecting liquids
and takes cait not to neglect to brush hei
hands and nails with care.-Paris Letter.