The sun., 1902-04-23
WOMAN AMBULANCE SURGEON.
YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL AND FIRST
OF HER sen TO GET THE JOB.
Tammany wouldn't Appoint DIR. DunninE.
but New Hospital Board Finds Femin-
Unity No Bar-TO Go TO work on
Jan. mo Thought OF Uniform Yet.

Dut NtW hOspithi ftUiIu-
Unity No Bar-TO 60 to work on
Jan. mo Thought OF Uniform Yet.
News that Miss Emily Dunning, NJ. D.,
had been appointed by the City Hospital
Board to be an inferno at Gouverneur for
the year beginning next January, caused
more OF less Of a sensation among the hos
pitfalls and the medical schools yesterday.
DR.. Dunning is no ordinary young woman
physician. She was second in her class
in the Cornell Medical School, which gradu-
ated on June last, and received hundred
dollar prize. Al that time she was a com
petitor for the privilege Of entering the
Gouverneur staff. and came out at the head
of the list The Board Of Charities. how
ever. refused 10 appoint her, because she
was a woman.
DR.. Dunning accepted the verdict Of
authority and became the assistant to
DR.. Mary c. Putnam Jacob. the wife Of
DR.. A. jacob, the well-known specialist
In children's diseases. The recent change
in the government OF the city's hospitals
caused Mrs. jacob and Miss Dunning TO
think that she might stand better chance
Of appointment with DR.. Brannan's board
than with the late lamented Kellers, and
DR.. Dunning, encouraged by her employer,
took the examination a second time. This
time she passed fourth. But her work in
the practical side Of the examination was
marked 100 per cent. correct.
The board gave her the appoint ment.
II carries with II the condition that DR..
Dunning will undertake all the work ordi-
narily required Of an interne at Gouverneur
Hospital, including ambulance service.
The district covered by the Gouverneur
ambulance service is not by any means the
pleasantest visually. nasally or personally
that there is in the city. But physicians
and others who 60 about the city doing
good are all agreed that In no part Of it
is one on an errand Of kindness or mercy
treated with more consideration or we'll
meant cordially than on the lower East
Side,
DR.. Mary Jacob, with whom DR.. DInning
has now worked for more than half year,
said Yesterday that she was sure DR.. Dun
ming would prove thoroughly effective as
an ambulance surgeon.
said DR.. Jacob. THE duty on the am
bulance Is, after all, a mere detail in the
work Of q surgeon in one OF our hospitals.
have no idea that there will be any diff
Guilty there. l have been all over that
district myself, although have never had
the opportunity Of hospital service. have
been there at all times of day and night.
have never been molested or annoyed in
Il do not believe that DR.. Dunning will
be ANNOYED or molested. On the other
hand, i believe. and am sure she be-
leves. that the very fact that she If woman
will smooth the way for her. Certainly
the merely incidental fact that she is a
very beautiful girl with a remarkably
fascinating presence and manner will not
in the least Interfere with her usefulness.
myself have found her very able assistant
In my work here
DR.. Jacob was sure that DR.. Dunning
had never spent any time worrying about
the character Of the uniform she should
wear as an ambulance surgeon.
you may be sure said DR.. jacob.
that she has never given the matter q
moments thought, and that when the time
comes she will be dressed inconspicuously
and appropriately. She is not the sort Of
woman who values an official appointment
because it enables her to wear stripes on
the sides of her skirt"
Lightly as DR.. jacob seems to regard
the hardships which must be faced by an
ambulance surgeon on the East Side,
whether man or woman, some other of
that she fully appreciated the many and
novel difficulties which will confront her.
She has expressed to them some inhlings
OF her msgivings. Certainly every one
who has seen the bowling. hustling. SEN
sation-hungry greedy mob which almost
the moment ii stops in an East Side street
cannot but wonder whether DR.. Dunnng
will regret her appointment after she has
had little experience.
One of her friends said yesterday that
there was not the slightest doubt but that
every policeman, sanitary inspector, ambu-
lance driver, car driver and bartender In
the Gouverneur district would be ready 70
lie down and die for Miss Dunning. once
her face became familiar In the district,
and that all difficulty would be avoided
in that way.
will she keep her nerve with herr
was one Of the questions asked OF DIR. Mary
Jacob yesterday.
1T does not occur to her that the under
taking requires what you call nerve was
the answer what seems 10 her 20 require
nerve was her action In going up 20 the
board and asking permission TO take the
examination a second time; ana then
having passed II, To demand an appointment
as a matter Of right, That seemed 20 hei
TO require a good deal OF nerve. But a.
for the rest IL IL merely In the line Of duty.
Miss Dunning is a Il. 5. Of Cornell, 9s
She il related 10 the Dean Sages OF Albany
Her father was formerly broker IN THU
city, and now lives In BroOkline Mass
She lives here with her uncle, DIR. W Is
Dunning at 10 Fast Eighteenth street
She does not care TO discuss her appoint
ment except 20 say that she n very Rlat
Of the opportunity for experience which I
affords and that she will Try 10 do her ful
duty while she i on duty.