Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-20
AMBULANCE. SURGEON
80.
/; HAS VARIETY OF CALLS
Injured by FESTIVE Horse
While Taking Body From
Wagon.
SEVERAL OVERCOME BY HEAT
Fire in Cleaning and Pressing Shop
Injuries Henry Branch, and for
= Time Threatens Serious Blaze.
>. Woman Falls From Street Car.

Ssss,ssss Ambulance Surgeon Pitkowitz re-
..-aturned from few DAYS vacation yes
4. @terday to ono of the hardest days work
hich has been his portion in several
Sveeks Call upon call came for the
~ ambulance in rapid succession. and tho
surgeon treated persons who had been
& brostrated by the heat. those who had
been bitten by dogs some who had
been shot or stabbed and others who
had been injured in the many different
g. Kinds OF accidents which are daily re-
- Horted throughout the city.
>-S One OF the most unusual cases was
that of Nathaniel Roy, a coiored an
-.saertaker of $50 North Eighteenth
street, whose wagon was overturned
'---while assistants we're taking BODY
from it. and who suffered severe
~sprain of the leg when his horse fell
upon him. The man informed DR.. FIT
S.Rowitz that the horse became fright
S~fhed and turned short upsetNng me
: wagon which in turn threw him. ROY
Ss.swas caught under the horse as he fell.
His condition is not thought to Re
Serious
Flora Chaplin. @l7 North Seventeenth
Street was also injured by a horse
The woman was sitting on the curb
ing in front OF her home when a team
struck her, hurting her back 10 tne
-a-sidewalk and inf'ictins an injury when
Dr. Pitkowitz fears may he + fracture
..6f the spine She was turned over 20
>sher family physician after the surgeon
had rendered emergency treatment
STREET CLEANER Is
OVERCOME Bf HEAT
j. Sanderson. North Robinson
/ street. a member OF the City Street
-CleaninE force was overcome BY the
- heat near Fifth and Duval streets, yes
eterday afternoon. and was treated by
the ambulance surgeon. He recovered
sufficiently TO 60 home alone.
u L. Hicks. lii Louisiana Street, was
bitten in two places by vicious dos
hear his home late yesterday. pr.
-Piikowitz cauterized each of the
. wounds. and was OF the opinion that
S--Eicks wouli suffer no further Ill Ell
tects from the injury.
Jackson Salvage, colored. who is en-
pioyed at City Point, dropped in the
street near Ninth and Broad Streets
ste yesterday afternoon. When DR.. /
arrived to attend the man he
e 'aiscoveeed that ne was suffering from 4
,e--bullet wound in his back and several
4acerat!cns of the scalp. Salvage in
formed the surgeon that ne had been
shot during quarrel q City Point yes
sterday afternoon He was taken to Viz
tginia Hospita! where his condition Is
being carefully watched
-. Rroadrick. GIL North Twenty-hrst
Z Street broke his collar bone while .
wrestling with a friend yesterday af- /,
,-ternoon. Ambulance Surgeon Pitko- I.
@e-&itz treated him and later took him 10
his home where he was turned over TO
sThis family physician.
!. Henry Branch, colorcd, employed in
d. cleaning and pressing establishment
,,r$t 1905 North Twenty fifth Street, was
z. badly burned about the hands and arms
H;5aSe sterday when tank OF gasoline
!, took fire. The negro was injured while
endeavoring to beat out the flames
(which threatened TO set fire 10 the
s.place. He found that his efforts were
Futile and that he had been caught in
the small room with a ten-inch open /
.. fnE as the only means Of egrcss.
--sBranch got out through the hole, al .
though he left several patches of skin
ssQn the boards. The fire Was ext!n
guished with little trouble.
Maggie Carr colored, fell from a
moving car at Seventeenth and Grace
Streets yesterday. The woman got TO
s-~her feet and stood in the street several
= minutes before she fell 70 the ground.
:..Dr. Pitkowitz found that her spine had
t5iteen injured and sent her TO Memorial
!..tIospital for surzica! treatment.
..i'. Two-year- Rebecca Dyson. 1904
..:Eryant Street, vas another patient
.tttreatef b. Dr.. Iitkon'itz yesterday. tn
::::.thild drank about nal: pint OF kero-
sene oil. during the absence Of her
".mother from IT, room. and tae surgeon
,.'.5ump n saving - ..!s, l.