The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-23

braska and South Dakota. Eleven OF
the first headquarters class, among
went to Galveston just after that city s
great calamity. and, among. other
things. dealt with no less than 600
cases Of blood poisoning. From that
time until the present the army has
continued to. instruct it's cadets in the
training homes each session. Since the
army first started its instructions, there
classes. As soon as the leaders learned
Eof INSTRUMENTATION Of the Barton So
! ciety, and it's plans, and the merging
of others. into it, they decided to be-
gin instruction to their classes under
it, which they did at the beginning of
the last 1905 session of the training
| homes. - ) :
First Aid Among the Children.
The work is being carried forward
even among the children, and it is
from the results among these that Miss
Barton expects to derive the greatest
have been organized among thesyoung
boys in many eastern cities and, in al
most eaery- case the interest taken, by
these youngsters in the first-aid work
has relegated football and marbles and
made the impromptu manufacture of a.
litter, or the rapid binding of bruised
and broken head of more Importance
than the manner Of getting the ball
being Judged out Of "migg1e" or
two. e. =.
Following the organization of compa-
MES and the mastery of the setting up
exercises comes instruction in litter
manufacturing and litter-bearing, the
boys being shown how to carry a loaded
litter upstairs or downstairs, how to
load and unload an ambulance, how to
carry an injured patient when no me-
chanical means are at, hand, how TO-
improvise litter from a blanket and
pair of fire hooks, how to swim and
rescue drowning persons; how to resus-
citate the drowned and how to act at
fires.
These and, dozens of other. useful
bits of knowledge have proved
BY by the he experience 4K Of the off.
just the sort that boys delight in. What
sounds like work, in printed form, is
play of the most delightful sort to the
boys who are enlisted in the first aid
clubs and who know more about
"bringing to' person drowned than
of the latest batting average of the
favorite league player.
The Y. M. G.. A. Takes It Up.
In the Y. MICA. classes, there is
usually given a course Of fourteen lee
lures, beginning with descriptive work
in anatomy and physiology and proceed
stopping bleeding wound, brea thing
correctly, artificial respiration, treat
ment of burns, demonstrations in the
use of various sorts of bandages, treat
mcnt In case of poisoning and in other
cases of unconsciousness from apoplexy.
intoxication, epilepsy, conclusion or
compression of the brain. The final
numbers , of the course include written
and oral examinations which, if salts
factorilly passed, are rewarded with
parchment diploma signed by Miss
Barton. There is also a little button.
the mark of the new order, which will
probably soon have the same signif-
canoe to the ordinary mob about a
scene of disaster as has the red cross
on the field of battle. -" TT
First Aid Among Railroaders.
But it is in railroad work that the
National FIRST Aid Association Of
America is making the most remark
able progress. About eighteen months
ago the Boston & Maine railroad BEGAN
to work among it's employees thru The
educational committee Of the Boston &
Maine department Of the Boston Y. M.
G: A.-and the road was quick to recog-
nize it's advantages, as have been sew
eral others snice then. The work was
begun under the direction of DR.. Har-
tung of the association, and the Oh
| ject of the course of. ten lectures was
that of all first aid work-to train men
to care for emergency cases until such
time as a doctor can be reached. a.,
So rapidly has the work progressed
I that there are now not only well-estab-
lished classes, but at several points
emergency hospitals have been opened.
| the principal one being at the. Ruther.
ford street yards in Boston: Here there
is scarcely a day when these men.
trained in the courses, are not called
| upon to treat some case. It may be