New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-12
HOSPITAL FORCES ARE KEPT Busy.

HOSPITAL FORCES ARE KEPT BUSY.
ADDITIONAL. DOCTORS AND NURSES WORK or
TIE MANY VICTIMS BROUGHT TO THEM.
From early IN the morning TIL late after, the
cool Of the evening had got in yesterday the hos
ptal ambulances were wheeling through the streets
with the victims OF the continued heat The doors OF
Gouverneur Hospital on the East Side were be.
sieged by an eager crowd Of onookcrs. az each
new patient was brought in This IL one Of tho
hardest worked hospitals I'm the city" said the
house surgeon there yesterday, and yet we have
only two ambulance wagons We have had fewer
calls to-day than Monday, but more genuine
aunstroke cases. There fifteen of these. We
have been 50 crowded that had to turn away
the applicants al the surgical dispensary to-day.
and have pressed two new horses INFO service"
There thrty-two calls made on the hospital
up 10 p. yesterday and twenty-one OF these
were cases Of heat prostraton. The hospital is
finding for eight nurses at present, ana the
six members Of the staff kept busy Their
treatment requires the Of about two hundred
pounds Of ice for each patient.
The superintendent Of the New-York Hospital
said Yesterday that fewer heat victims
brought In than on Monday Five horses are now
being used there instead OF three. and no horse IS
used on two trips with the ambulance in success
sion
The House Of Relief In Hudson-st., has added
four physicians two nurses and three or four
orderlics 20 the working force. and has use for
on the North River were taken there AZ time
yesterday. all Frustrated by the hea.. Tho super
intendent is unable to get material assistance from
the police patrol wagons, as these wagons have
about all they do
If this weather continues" he said. Yesterday,
II want the friends of persons who are Frustrated
to know that they should bring their friends in at
once in a cab. the chances of saving If are
much smaller II they wait for the ambulance"
St Vlncents hospital is also crowded with heat
cases at present. Three or four physicians have
been added to the regular staff and extra nurses.
ordcrlies and ambulance horses used. I'VE
Chandler of the ST Vincent sta If. I'VE place heat
ply ice to the head ami nee ice packs on The body
until tho temperature falls 70 l05 degrees The pa
falls to % degrees or leo degrees afterward We
used the ice bath the first day Of the hot spell but
which it may bring. We use deitalis 20 stimulate
1 ne e 2M r9 Sn nae reran conc 10
seriousness treat him As an alcoholic subject II
0 nf rs e an P@So nan mem aq S " h heart a
ing out about ten ounces Of blood usually Breath
ing is stimulated by artificial respiration electric.
ity, galvanism. scarfying or cupping the chest
Cases OF mere prostration We treat with stimulans
sometimes administered through stomach tubes.
OF sixty-two heat cases during this last not spell
we have lost only one Most OF our Patients are
Youngest patient was fourteen -year-old boy.
Strange to say cur older patients do better than
The stursis Surgical Pavilion at Bellevue Hos
pital was filled with heat cases yesterday. Extra
horses have been pressed into the ambulance
vice. and the staff and nurses of the hospital have
been crowded with after case. Twenty cases
We're taken to the pavilion between D. m. and
midnight Monda" and died until 2:30
Il Tuesday. Forty-one cases have been sent
there and only five deaths reported Com
missioner Faure spoke In terms OF praise of he
work done nj the naviiion yesterday by physicians
and attendants There MS been utter lack of
red tape hesitau don disposition to dispute over
the handling Of the cases said he. The whole
treatment has been followed out with Willingness
every mans part 10 do his duty and the result
hns been ominontlY sntisfa ctOrY."