The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-19
STATION ...
HOSPITAL WARD
HAS A PATIENT
New Emergency Depot viii
Be Credit To City When IT,.
Finally Completed
SERVICE is SAVING
MUNICIPALITY MONEY
Doctor Aver Has Cut Hospital
Bill Down About $500 a
'' Month Already e

The first patient was placed in the
ward at the new emergency hospital al
the police station yesterday afternoon
She was Iva Nishimura, a japanese wo
man, who is being held pending an ex
animation as to Der sanity.
The patient had her own bed brought
to the ward, the cots and other equip
ment not yet having arrived from the
mainland, their delay being due to the
blockade of the Panama Canal. The
material probably viii come overland
Equipment for the operating room /.
also awaited and is expected to be here
early next month. BY the end T.. rhe
year 1t is confidently expected that the
hospital will be in thorough rumnna
order.
The ward, operating room, Office an |
inquest iehamber are finished in white
and well lighted. There ia an air of
brightness about The place which il
positively cheerful An operq,ira nm.
der such surroundings, always provided
it be of a minor nature, should ne an
interesting. If not q pleasant expert
ence.
Station Saves City Money
That the emergency hospital, under
the direction of DR.. r. G. Aver, is al.
ready saving the city considerable
money Is evidenced by the reports sub
mitted to the supervisors which show
that the hospital is saving the city
about $500 a month on an average. al
ready, and has been doing almost as
well for the past three months. The
supervisors have been paving the
Queen 5 Hospital on an average of from
$l050 to $1,000 month and last mont,
this amount was cut to less than 5000.
Since Doctor Aver took office on August
the cases treated at the police station
have averaged l25 a month. At pres
ont the cases arc being treated and
operations performed in the basement
of the station
Work on the construction of the am
bulanee is proceeding apace under the
supervision Of and in accordance with
specifications furnished by Doctor Aver
The Schuman Carriage Company is sup
plying the ambulance, an appropriation
of $4,000 for that purpose having re-
Gently been made by the board of su
pervisOrs.
Win Have Powerful Motor
: The chassis of the ambulance will be
that ora 1914 I'ierce-ArrOw ear. The
will be equipped with a
frst-aid set, hot water apparatus, a cot,
a swinging stretcher and hand stretch
or. There will I've a Pullman seat for
an attendant. The vehicle will have
open doors on the sides and at the back,
and there will he three windows on
each side. 1t will be able to comfort
ably accOmmOdate two reclining IA.
tients and at pinch room can be made
for three. Equipped with a sixty horse
power engine, the new ambulanc" ALL
be as speedy a motor as almost any
thing on the local rOa..s.
Doctor Aver is cOnsi lcring the IN
Stallation of a ungmOtOr instead of a
pulmotor, which is being used at pres.
rnt for the rrsuscitati0n of the al par
emily drowned. The mngmOtOr is an
lmpr"N 'm"nt on the pulmOtOr aud is
said to be much more effective The
l.ulm"tor has an clement of danger con
nrrt"d with it's operation. in that It i
backs up and chokns pa
tirnt.
The ambulance will be fitted with
drnouutublc tires which will rerni: of
$p""Iy adjustment of a new tire in
"aS" Of blow out while the ear Is
making a run. It also will he equipped
" III shock ahsUrhcr which VII ensure
h" patlrmt being conveyed ~ the hos
"tHl with minimum of joltius and
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