The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-07-31
DECLARE
CENTRAL HOSPITAL
IS NEEDED At ONCE
President Ryan, of Common
Council, Deplores Lack of
Emergency Service.
DIR. ELLIOTT SAYS MANY
LIVES WOULD BE SAVED
DR.. Robertson and DR.. HerOld
Among Those Who Say Ambu-
lance Ought to Be Supplied.

The immediate necessity of better
ambulance and emergency hospital IA
cilities was again emphasized today in
the statement made to THE EVENING
STAR by Mrs. Alice Hodson. of lis
First avenue, Rosele, who was struck
in the face by a batted ball while
watching a game at Branch Brook
Park yesterday.
She was rendered unconscious and
was left lying on the park lawn for
over half an hour before an ambulance
from the Second Precinct station re-
sponded and removed her to the City
Hospital.
Early today she was taken to her
home in Roselle, her face very badly
bruised and swollen. She made the
following statement:
1T was left lying on the park lawn
for over half an hour before an am
bulance arrived. Newark certainly is
badly in need of a more efficient am
bulance service Had l been more Sc
riously injured 1 might have died be-
fore medical assistance reached me-"
Aroused by this case and the
death of 15-year-old Benjamin
Ridden, who lay on the side
walk waiting half an hour for an
men of Newark are demanding a CEN
trail emergency hospital.
THE EVENING STAR printed the
facts concerning the case of the boy
and the case of John Wardner, who
after being struck by car had to
wait a long time on the sidewalk at
Broad and Cedar streets for an am
bulance.
Patrick H. Ryan, president of the
Common Council, today said:
II will pledge my assistance in Sc
curing from the Common Council
reasonable appropriation to provide a
central emergency hospital at once. We
ought to rent building near the heart
of the city, equip 1t and obtain am
balances, surgeons and nurses. I'll
help to get the money"
"Many Lives Would be Saved.
1.-The most crying need that Newark
has at the present time is a central
emergency hospital" said Dr. Samuel
e. Robertson, formerly president of the
Board of Trade. "I'll work hard to
get it. / have advocated it for years,
but nothing has ever come of it,
I'VE have been trying for years to
get money for a central EN- rgency hos
pital," said DR.. H. c. H. Herold, presi-
dent of the Board of Health. my col
leagues are unanimously in favor of
the project and we intend now to
work with renewed and unceasing vigor
until the hospital is established"
MANY lives probably would be saved
and much suffering averted by CEN
trail emergency hospital" said DR.. Dan
lei Elliott, county physician. II am
heartily In favor of the proposition.
An ambulance that can respond quickly
to a hurry call, with a surgeon, Is
needed and the people of Newark ought
to have It,"
DIR. Frank Devlin. leading physician
Of the Ironbound district, said:
Positively the first thing Newark
needs is q central ambulance and hos
pltal station. Quickness, dispatch, is
what is absolutely necessary. Yet with
out the central hospital we cannot
have it, and the injured are cared for
In a more or less slipshod way"
Dr. John Dennis, a well-known prac-
titioner in the northern section, de-
clared central emergency hospital
ought to be provided at once
'There Should Not he a Days Delay"
DIR. e. zeh Hawkes., of Central ave-
nue., said:
Newark should have had a central
emergency hospital years ago. There
should not be a delay of one day longer
in taking steps now to remedy the de-
feet. 1t is absolutely needed, and
should be established"
"rhe crying need of Newark is a bet
ter ambulance SYSTEM declared DR..
]. Fewsmith II have been fighting for
1t for some time and will continue to
fight for It, Henceforth 1 will work
with renewed vigor."