The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-08-24
HOSPITAL RAIL WAY CAR
Fries Pan For Attending to
Injured Passengers.
COMPLETE OPERATING ROOM IN USE

AN Appliances and Convenience Of
an Up to Date Surgical outRt Pro-
vided-Icvcn Safety Pins, Overlook
ed In First Accident, Now at Hand.
Doctor. Quickly Summoned.
Plans were completed by the Eris
railroad for the introduction Of a mum.
Der Of hospital or ambulance cars, with
which to cope with the effects of: col
usions or other accidents, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. For over year the
railroad has been quietly experiment.
Ing with the ordinary car.
Instead of having to rely upon local
hospitals or improvised ambulances Ii
cases where either employees or pas
sengers have been hurt, the company
has been able to send at once to the
scene of any trouble a perfectly fitted
car, wherein all the appliances needed
by the surgeon for caring for the In
tured were at hand.
The car that has been in use as an
experiment is merely an ordinary day
coach, from which the seats have been
taken. The car has been divided into
an operating room and room wherein
eight beds, all ready for patients, are
disposed along the two sides of the
center aisle. This arrangement will be
followed out in the new cars about to
be built, but with important modifica-
tons and improvements.
In the first place, the new cars will
be more stoutly built and hung upon
easier springs, so that In transit the
patients will feel the minimum jar and
jolt. The doors at each end of the new
car will be sufficiently wide to permit
beds to be carried through them. In
addition to these end doors there are
also doors on either side of the oper-
ating rooms, which fold on double
hinges and through which a stretcher
or bed can be passed with ease.
Three-fourths of the length of the
car is taken up by two rows of beds,
four being in each row The beds are
single iron bedsteads, having fine
steel spring, a mattress, rubber sheet
and above that the regular bedding ac-
cording to the season of the year. The
coverlets are white and neat and the
blankets are gray army blankets that
are light and yet warm. Each bed
stands on four low boxes that raise 1t
a bit from the floor. Other boxes of
different heights are provided. so that
the bed in case of necessity may be
raised two feet OF less above its reg,l-
Ear height. The walls of the car are
white enamel. the iron beds are white
and the ceiling a soft gray.
The operating room is amply large to
care for patients who require the most
delicate operations. II is about four
teen feet long and the full width OF the
car. There are four doors, one on every
side. so that an injured person NAV be
carried into the room from any dlrec.
uon. The doors are wide enough 10 per.
init bed being carried In from the
hospital. or stretcher may be passed
In through one or the side doors and
the patient laid on the glass and white
enamel operating chair.
In one corner Of the room IL a wasb. |
stand which has liz own special tauk
OF absolutely pure water. This wate,
- dlstllled aud changed frequently 40
tliaf y may always be- fresh and ready |
fof vss Beside A. Oh a stand. d ths /
sl'flllEinF machine 10 cleanse the in. |
f"uplepis When not Al use A Al
eossfaq win sofl rubber shleld.
~ another corner ~ tho oDerailns
room stands me surgeons closet ,shlf
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