New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-12
AMBULANCES At BRIDGE.
MADOO PLANS FOR THEM.
Opposition Likely to Nezo Precision
for Rash Hour accidents.

Police Commissioner NcAdoo has planned 10 have
stationed the Manhattan entrance to the
Brooklyn Bridge every week day from about 5 to Z
p. two police surgeons two patrol wagons and
two patrolmen that persons injured on the
bridge between those hours receive quick med
ical attendance and be removed from the bridge to
n hospital If necessary without a moments delay.
He expects to get appropriation in the near
future to put this plan in effect.
While no one has yet told the Commissioner that
his plan TO place police hospital corps at the
service Of the public for certain hours OF each work
day and may be seven days OF each week through
out the year at the Manhattan entrance to the
bridge is likely meet with strong opposition. IT
Is than probable that It will have TO be altered
considerably before IL is unanimously approved.
from what could be learned yesterday. Such a
corps would have work to q large extent under
the direction of the Hudson Street and the Gouv-
erneur hospitals. and because Of this fact and the
nature Of the work which the proposed police emer-
gency corps will be expected to do tho police sur
geons viii be practically called upon to do hospital
ambulance duty. 1t is said that most of the police
surgeons. who well advanced in years and who
were many years ago ambulance surgeons while
gaining medical experience in a hospital, may not
take kindly TO the plan which Will make them do
ambulance service again. 1t IS further said that
tbs police surgeon tho ambulance might order
q person taken to one Of the downtown hospitals.
only to find that It was against the rules for the
hospitals to take such person. and in those con-
ditions valuable time might be lost.
Unless Commissioner McAdoo changes his plan
It Is likely II is also SAID to encroach to largo
extent the ambulance service OF either the Hud-
Street Hospital. the downtown branch of the
New-Nork Hospital. which is maintained by the
Society OF tho New-York Hospital and not by the
city, though the city pays to the institution small
for each person treated free. the Gouver-
neur Hospital one of the charity hospitals Every
hospital takes much pride In the efficiency Of its
hospital service and carefully guards its ambulance
service district The Manhattan entrance to the
Brooklyn Bridge IS in the regular ambulance SER
vice district Of the Hudson Street and GOuver-
neur hospitals, though in an emergency, and IN
special cases, aInbulanCes from either hospital
sent any part OF the city.
to bring about change If possible, in Commission
er McAdOo's plan for police ambulance corps for
the Brooklyn Bridge, hospital records for the last
two years show that the number of calls for
ambulance received from the Brooklyn Bridge has
not been more than one day. The same person
told Trib' reporter last night that II would
cost tho city about Sl40o year for each ambu-
lance and that for n sum considerably less than
81 500 a year the Hudson Street Hospital could
the work required. and also use the ambulances
for general calls when not stationed at the en-
trance to the BROOKLYN Bridge.