The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-26

understand me if I should ask them
whether they were suffering more or less
than usual"
Have they no friends" asked the Wis
itor
They are Poles - answered the physi-
clan. Poles never have any friends.
Sick man no good Is their conviction.
When a patient is admitted into the hos
pital, we always endeavor 10 ascertain the
name of his nearest friend in order to
place the remains in his charge in the
event of the patients death. We ind, IN
nearly every instance. that the friend re
sents this, and will solemnly declare that
he never knew the man, and that there
has been a mistake"
The doctor and the visitor went on
down the room until the physician stopped
beside bed on which lay Lad not more
than II years old.
This case will break your heart"
whispered the doctor. The boy looked up
into his face and drew a long, labored
breath, gasping in 4 faint little voice:
Hurry up, doctor, hurry up. | shall
die if you don't hurry up"
Why don't you do something for him"
exclaimed the visitor, almost Indignantly.
That boy ought not to die. What is the
matter with him. Why don't you help
himl"
1T is a fracture of the larynx," said
the doctor, quietly. He has been like
this for three days. 1t is an injury from
a car accident in the mines. "
is he miner, boy as young as this3"
asked the visitor
1T is an ordeal" said the physician,
land l have had many violent cases of
hySteria to battle with. The whole train
Ing of a hospital nurse is shocking to
sensitive, refined woman. The first
month especially of a nurses service is a
fgaia al fr,rs 1nC II nFi oct nj
most courageous girl, the night duty
above all. We have three nurses on
watch during the night; one for the pri-
vate patients. and one for the surgical
ward patients, and one for the medical
ward, so that the nurse who happens to
be on duty is alone with her patients dur
ing the greater part of the night. One of
the nurses said 10 me after she had been
in the hospitals short time:
q" If | had understood what my life
was to be, ! should never have come
into the hospital Now that | have be-
gun ! shall go on with it. If ! can only
get through this first fearful month. |
will be able to endure anything after
that. Nothing could be more dreadful
than this experience. y
He was what is called a doorkeeper-
that is, boy who watches the car as it
goes from the main shaft into the differ
ent openings, to see that there is no OBJ
struction in the way"
The boy still kept up feeble mutter-
ing, Hurry up, doctor, hurry up"
rs there no help for him." said the
visitor again.
If we help him, it will be by the use of
these" answered the physician, taking
up some Instruments that lay on a table
close to the patients bed.
How will you use those?" asked the
visitor
"Tracheotomy," answered the physi-
clan briefly. and they went down the aisle
of the wardroom.
well, " exclaimed the visitor, 81 can
not understand how the nurses endure
this sort of thing; it is trying enough to
masculine nerves"
But they become used to it," the doc
Cur added. There was a case of young
English girl who tainted when the first
patient who was under her charge died,
and now" he said musingly IF you
should look behind that screen l think
you would see that same young girl, with
the aid of another nurse, preparing the
remains of miner for removal from the
hospital"
Come, doctor, must get out of this"
said the visitor, hastily Il can't stand
IL any longer. I am not rich man, but,
thank God, am well, and" he added
with great fervor, thank God, l am not
q miner -