The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-08-06

oped and perpetuated by the personnel
and equipment Of the Radio corpora
tion. has spread to all parts Of the
globe and now any ship seeking med
zeal aid Is promptly served.
The Chatham coastal station, the
most powerful Of It's kind in the
world, with the call letters WIN, lis
tens for calls for medical service In
the Boston vicinity. VIM is so pow
erful that it often handles medical
service messages from all parts Of
the Atlantic, from close to Europe
down to the Gulf of Mexico.
Radio medical service for the North
Atlantic and North Pacific Is handled
by the high-power stations, but In
the caribbean sea and adjacent wa
tiers, the United Fruit company has
established a free service through its
splendid hospitals established In trop-
ical America.
Curing Them by Radio.
As you gaze 1t the sky it seems In
credible that through the apparently
empty air this merciful work is quiet
ly functioning all the while. Indeed,
side by side with the radio waves that
bring entertainment TO your home,
there are the waves bearing the STAG
cato dot-dash messages of ship-to-
shore traffic, some of which is devoted
to the radio medical service. Count
less radiograms bear witness to cures
by stating at the close Of the case,
Patient all o. k, normal yesterday,
and today no symptoms of any kind;
many thanks"
More than one operation has been
performed by the ships crew, working
under the direction Of a surgeon miles
away.
Once the United States liner Amer
lea picked up a stray message from
a lone freighter stating that 10 mem
bers of Its crew were suffering from
a painful malady. Only the vaguest
details were forthcoming, as would be
expected from laymen. The vessels at
the time were some 800 miles apart
obviously a ase of long-range dag
nosis. Putting their heads together
and working on the meager details,
doctors diagnosed the ailment as
ptomaine poisoning. For two days the
men Of the freighter were treated by
radio instruction. Then this message
came back to the America: 'Your d.
rections followed. All but six on duty.
They are recovering fast. Thanks and
Ga AH~rr -vo~~ De- -A-@-A
Double Service.
At another time another freighteE
called to the America stating that a
member of its crew was In agony.
The doctor then aboard the America
studied the case by means of the data
supplied, and prescribed by radio. The
following day a message was received
from an Italian steamer some 300
miles away In an entirely different dl-
rection stating MANY thanks to
steamer America. We had sick mem
Der of crew suffering from similar
ailment. Prescribed same as directed
for other steamer. Our patient recov-
ering. God bless you" So, what
was intended for a specific case also
came in handy for another. In this
particular instance the radio medical
service Of the America had been truly
broadcast.
And see babies! The stOrk does not
always select his visits in keeping
with carefully laid plans. Sometimes
he insists on paying a visit aboard a
ship-even a ship without medical aid
at hand. Here again the radio medi-
cal service supplies the necessary ex-
pert direction. while lay hands do the
work.
The public at large Is too apt to con-
slider radio only In terms of entertain
ment. But In the radio world, this
phase is Of minor Importance only,
when considered side by side with
commercial radio traffic.
There is hardly a steamer today
that Is not provided with a radio
transmitter and receiver. Even the
numbering freighter carries a radio set.
Powerful land stations both in this
country and abroad maintain commu-
nication with ships at sea.