The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-13
ARMS PLANT HAS
 MODEL HOSPITAL
 UNDER DIR. COLGAN
Central Structure Top Floor For Complete Elmer
 gency Equipment.

Up on the fifth and top story of building 412. the central unit of the ] great workshops of the Bridgeport Arms Co, is soon to be established the most complete emergency factory hospital in the United States. The 1 hospital will be in charge of a. Bridge port boy, Dr. William J. Colgan. and the nurse will be Miss Marie L. Mar tin, native of Bridgeport and grad uate of the Bridgeport hospital train ing school.
 The hospital records and all cleri- cal work will be in charge of J. V. Mahan, who flor eight years was em- pIoyed in a similar capacity at the derlies will be employed and there will be every facility for taking care of every sort of an accident which may occur in the big plant which is now being rushed to completion
 The hospital will be a. reception hospital foE~surgical cases and cots will be provided so that patients may l for observation. Only minor surgi- cal eases will be treated at this hos pital. Major cases will be taken as soon as possible to the Bridge port hospital. A number of first aid stations will be established 9hroug gfout
  1 will be in charge of men who are 1 accustomed to administer first aid in such cases. Men not familiar with these matters and who are to be in charge of the first aid stations. will be taught how by Dr. Colgan. i All the medical and surgical sup plies for the hospital including the cots arrived today but it will proba- l bly be the middle of August or bhe l first of September before work on the 1 building can be completed so that the | hospital can be established The building known as 412 has been se- 1ected because when all the huild- ings contemplated for the big plant are completed it will be located direct 1 1y in the center of the plant.
 At present there is a, hand stretch CT for use in serious cases but when the hospital is opened motor driven ambulance and a. chauffeur will be I provided. Tn such a large plant where thousands of workn1en are em- pIoyed on machinery it is but natural that there should be scores of acct- dents of all sorts each day. It is to provide instant relief and possibly save i lives of the injured that the hospital is to be established.
 In fact the hospital has already been established in temporary quarters in the center of building 27, which is one of the one and one-haf story brick l northern end of the plant. pr. Col gan is already in charge, with Mir. Mahan as his clerk and several male orderlies who have had experience in placing bandages and dressings on qni- nor wounds. Some severely painful cases such as crushed fingers and broken bones have already been treat ed by Dr. Co1San at the hospital. l The purpose of the establishment of the hospital is of course to furnish quick relief from pain and alleviate the suffering which injured employees | would otherwise have to endure in the delay of getting medical attendance l from outside.
 A record of every case treated is 1 kept by the company and records for the compensation commissioner are also made by Clerk Mahan Gases l where worknen are taken i'll at their employment win not be treated at the hospital. It is expected that very shortly a, worf<men's sick benefit asso- citation will be organized among the employees. This organization will have the members at their homes and pro vide medical treatment until they re-
 cover.
 The equipment for thesnew factory
 hospital is the most complete that
 could be procured andxevery effort is being made to have it housed in per- T1anent quarters as ,on as possible
 Dr. George B. CoweH for many years has attended all eases of injury or ac- cident at tht works of the Remington
 Arms-U. M. c. Go. He will continue
 to act as the company's physician.
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