Evening star., 1935-10-06
DOCTOR DESCRIBES
TRAFFIC INJURIES.
DR.. ]. Roscoe Cheer of
Emergency Speaks in
Closing Broadcast.

An interview with Or. j. Roscoe
Greer, broadcast from Emergency Hos
pital last night, concluded the series
Of IS radio broadcasts incident to the
safety campaign being waged by The
Star.
DR.. Greer painted vivid word pic
ture of the horror Of trafiic injury and
death as only . physician who rides
the ambulance on emergency calls
could paint it.
"A small boy, dying, with the pointed
ornament Of an automobile radiator
cap driven through hts skull so that
it ripped out part Of his brain" was
described by DR.. Greer as the result
Of recklessness.
"A woman brought in with every bit
OF muscle and tissue from her thigh
to her ankle scraped from the bone
and hanging limp" vas ascribed to q
drivers carelessnes.
Safety Il Cure.
Eliminate carelessnes and reckless
ness and you could eliminate traffic
tragedy" DR.. Greer said He classed
the physical and mental disability re-
sultant from trafic accidents in the
category OF durable "malsdies," be-
cause the cause is known. With the
cooperation Of every motorist and
pedestrian, q cure can be effected, he
said.
The physician disclosed that the
Emergency Hospital ambulance an
.rvare * ta an nrner0apcv calls aorh
day, many Of which follow q drivers
momentary carelessness. He pointed
out that private cars. police, and taxi
cabs bring In q large additional num-
Der Of trafhc victims.
In . Hypothetical resume Of the
= routine Of ambulance service, DR..
Greer told what Is done for q man
with . broken leg suffered in acci-
dent. The equipment, the measures
. taken to reduce the patients pain and
make him comfortable. and the care
provided ct the hospital were de.
scribed.
Relief in Amputation.
THE pain Of q rnangled leg Is 30
great" he said, that 1t Is q relief for
the victim to lose 1t by amputation."
The physician also criticized the
traffic regulation that requires am
balances In the District to stop at
every red light and stop sign. He
said Washington is the only city where
this Is true and declared that lives
have been lost In the split seconds
lost by stops made while going to the
scene Of accidents.
During the series Of radio broad
casts as were presented over Station
WJSV Of the Columbia Broadcasting
System and 40 over Stations WRC
and WMAL Of the National Broad
casting Co. All time for these pro-
ductions was donated to The Star BY
the systems to help reduce accidents
In Washington.
Morgue Scenes Described.
Amoug the featured broadcasts were
Arthur Godfrey describing what takes
place at the morgue when . trafic
victims body Is brought there; an in
terview with Prisoner 81 ,007, broad adcast
from the District Jail; two broadcasts
from the morgue OF actual coroners'
eANoc1VV &AbO tA6A4N 0CdbLlS,
interview with an injured person
broadcast from her bed IN Emergency
Hospital. These were over Station
WJSV.
An actual meeting Of the Board Of
District Commissioners-the first ever
put on the air-featured the series
over Station WRC and interviews with
Engineer Commissioner Sultan and
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald and
Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Muir
ply over Station WMAL.
All the broadcasts were planned and
presented by five members of The Star
editorial staff-G. Adams Howard, I.
William Hill. James Z. Chinn, Blair
Bolles and George Hurd. They
worked with cooperation of T. Wells
Church Of Station WJSV and the
Columbia Broadcasting System and
Fred Shawn Of the National Broad
casting Co.