New-York tribune., 1908-09-13
e)ork of Ambulance SurSeon
The Strenuous Life DIR. Mary Crawford Has l
Months Williamsburg HosptoL

size of his head, she said to him sootninsiy'
There, you're finished
He put his hand to his head. felt it covered WIN
bandages and to the surprise OF ALL sanA o10
weakly and burst into maudn tears
why what's the matter7' asked tne ooo'o'
solcitously.- ,,,v
.T5ck.d by a woman" he sobbed despairinsy.
I'm a gone duck, sure when woman CEN AAooi
me OUT ..-.
v.rv few women come under the surgeons care.
NJ. q. many Of them are employed in dangerous
,-.1.s and where they are the doctor THINKS NV
as many of them are injured
.uT,b.v sr,n't as likely to be half fun wniie thes
st work" she said coo.iy. "and they arc hno.
careful and cautious by nature. Iho iA@' 10
woman is weaker physically makes hei - -
carerrl about every kind Of danger Ihen VIC"
ornsn ash. they don't fight with knives ano guns
They fight with their tongues ano inc "ou
made are not such as the surgeon can cu
From one quarter of her bailiwick aiono 'ho ~
a.. 80 1-or,en who use the knife with neatness
and d,snatch There is block on Lorinaer
where one police officer puts IN MS ei..i =.
ond through which no white person ls aiio"eu u. -
-,,oIt after dark It is very dusky piock' Do'n
wan "N th. and the ambulance Is called
-. ot.en Several times during her SIX mouths
of service the doctor has found IN tna' oooN 80 -
,yon,en stabbed and cut with Knives ~ o0 80
they fight each other ana sonnelihieo >o' =,
..L rnan They all to use sort Oh ioAe
stiletto c-.rd .r ear
ts,nlv like 1t very much. All the siris ~ my
class liked It better than medlcal worn
more definite science than incidence hhofe ~ =
.,,ng moro fascinating. Not many women o.
e,. q. is true but that is because they can
a+ q chance for practice. They can't get ING Ho
n,tal appointments which give tneih p....t
res the hospital where you have such eu
~ .he work to do day in and day out "hch So
80, IN. nerve to 20 right ahead and 90 ene
-, ,s sino,,iv knowledge. When you feel per-
,.ct,v s,re how to do thing you aren s he 80
% ali OF course one has to have the tempe -
<,+ 20 do surgical work successfully, out 81 oNo
has to have for anything eise
sEAMY SIDE OF LIFE.
c,sn,ora won her hospital appointment IN Z
cornpetitive examination h.nc.
So. many women" she said. cant &c. SN s
.,,a1 70 take the examinations. Hospital o0"lu.
o'e" . - .np one but men to take them But
-, III. examination for this posiuoh "ae Oh
nounced they didn't put in anything aoou' ~
women No woman had ever appeaFeo ~ ~
examination and they never thoushl VI
thing After won 1t there was s00u - - - -.
cnssion The board didn't want TO give !. ~ nv
- ATTN, think 1t was place suitable ior
CONAN But they the most fair-rninoeo io' uA
me-, I ever saw. They said: she won II 'u-
IN our own rules, and there Is no Why IN "ni0n V"
can Justly refuse II to her Ii she can uo .no
.b.,r SOON find II out and be forced to resish'
r. E,,I, DnnninS has been ambulance surgeon
=, New York Several women have filed the posi-
In Philadelphia, and another nneo II ioi oo
wears in Chicago. Dr. Phoebe DUBOIS l.e ols
woman who was graduated from the meolcai eoioo
~ cornell this year. has received similar appoint
80 o+ IN. F7ushing Hospital and will enter upon
her duties on January 1. Once only has Dr. Cra"-
ford encountered angry opposition In the lschatse
of her duties, and that strange to say, was "iieh
she took husband home to his Wlre' Iho ihsh
was drunk and while in that conoiton was pai
..,, o,,.-coroe nv the heat and fell In the street
II was not a surgical case, and after doing whaS
she could for him, the doctor, out OF the goooness
Of her heart merely to keep the man from oeiis
arrested took him to his home. When his WHO
understood the state Of the she started In TO
o,,-sa +ba doctor She cursed with ease and
huency a tropic luxuriance Of expletive and IN
vectiye which interested the doctor, who likes 10
see a good Job at anything. The ground ana Deo-
rock OF her complaint was that the doctor had
brought the man home instead of leaving him on
The street taking him to hospital or letting him
get arrested Why bring him to her? Didn't she
have enough of him without having him brought
back to her when he wasn't able TO walk?
Pathetic incidents?" said the doctor. We'll, ono
night a hurry call came from tenement house
When I got there / found a and his wife had
been trying to kill each other. They had fought
with chairs and dishes and broken glass and finally
with knives-case knives and carving knives They
were all cut up and bleeding, and the hoor was COW
cred with blood. They lay opposite sides Of the
room, under guard of policeman, and as they lay
tkey cursed each other and each laid the blame on
the other and told how 1t all happened The poor.
miserable dirty was all torn up Uttered with
broken chairs and crockery; the table overturned,
the bed torn to pieces and bedding strewn around:
and off in corner watching this hopeless scene
and listening to their father mother each
other were huddled five little children. They never
said a word cried they merely watched and lis
tened At that moment the dreadfulness of some
things in life swept 1t never had before.
The sacredness of marriage and parenthood wasn't
startlingly apparent just thea