The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-05-29
AID.
READY FOR
SHRINE
Ambulance Stations, Doctors,
and Nurses to Be Plenty
Along Parade Routes.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.

BY GEORGE FRANKLIN.
Emergency aid for victims Of &C.
cidentS or persons suddenly stricken
Ill while watching the monster
street parades and other spectacles
featuring Shrine Week has been
deliberately planned for by the
Shrine hospital committee. Hos
pital, army and undertakers ambu-
lances, besides the twelve patrol
wagons Of the police department,
each equipped with emergency aid
kits and stretcbers and accompanied
by ! surgeons and trained nurses.
will be scattered along the line OF
march and through the downtown
zone.
DR.. Charles Stanley White, chair.
man of the Red Cross and hospital
rangements, the final details Of
which are being perfected.
According to the present plan,
more than a score of ambulances
carrying nurses and surgeons will
constitute a network OF emergency
stations stretched across the active
zone. They will be provided with
the necessary passes to insure their
uninterrupted transit to the various
hospitals and will be properly pro-
tected in their locations by the
police.
Emergency Wards.
In addition an emergency ward
will be opened at the headquarters
of the District of Columbia Red
Cross, Is Jackson street. under the
direction Of DR.. Ralph Jenkins,
where trained nurses will be in
attendance.
A second emergency ward will be
established at National Red Cross
headquarters, Seventeenth and y
street northwest.
Practically all Of the ambulances
will be supplied free OF charge. The
War Department, 1t is understood
is planning, if necessary, to- draw
largely on the army field and hospi-
tai corps in supplementing the serv-
ice already provided by the hospl.
tai committee.
More than seventy-five trained
nurses will be on hand to render
aid where their services are need
ed. These nurses, it is understood,
have contributed their time. The
ambulance service, 1t is said, Is also
a free contribution made by the
ment and Police Department.
Plans to establish a number OF
permanent emergency hospital serV-
ice stations within the zone or ac.
tivities were seriously considered, 1t
is understood. but abandoned when
1t was found practical to utilize
ambulance for such work.
Expect Few Casualties.
~ IN
developing the emergency aid serv-
ice, it is not anticipated that many
casualties will occur owing to the
efficiency of the police regulations
in force during the convention gov
erning the use Of highways While
the parades are in progress.
Practically all of the physicians
and surgeons in the city have en-
tered their names on the emergency
call list and will stand ready to
respond to any call for their serV-
ices, as is true Of the trained
nurses not already listed.
Dividing Of the downtown sec
tons, where the activities of the
week will center, into zones, each
with it's quota of ambulances sta
toned at fixed points. 1t is pointed
out, has simplified the situation.
According to this arrangement am
balances equipped with emergency
outfits, in charge Of surgeons aided
by two trained nurses will be
stationed along the Pennsylvania
avenue section within a few hun
dred feet of each other.
At all the hospitals special ar
rangements have been made to &C.
cept and treat cases brought in by
the ambulances Immediately on ar
rival. All resident surgeons and
irternes will be on duty during the
convention period.
Safety Measures.
EVERY precaution has been and
Is being taken to insure the safety
of both the participants in the
parades and other demonstrations
and the spectators" said one of the