The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-05

clinic, sponsored by the. Whining
ton Rotary club.
The Rev. Mortimer Glover, rec
tor of st. James Episcopal church
who is connected with the work
said that the ciirIc is instrumental
in correcting and healing badly
formed bones o. children. He re-
called one case of a child who
had not walked since he was 10
years old. For eight years he was
an invalid and diagnosis and sub
sequent treatment enabled him at
the age of Is to walk from the
building, his bones healed and
Strengthened.
The clinic also has the assist
ance of the hospital, the Whining
ton branches o. the Infantile Pa
ralysis association, the Crippled
Childrens' association, h e North
Carolina Medical association and
the North Carolina Sorosis club.
DR.. Oscar l.. Miller, nationally
known orthopedist of Charlotte
makes a monthly visit to Whining
ton to counsel and make exami-
nations. Treatment of returnees is
given as a courtesy to those who
cannot pay, but usually a fee is
charged for treatment.
Throughout h emergency
rooms is an orderly stock of ma
terials and equipment f o r treat
ment Of any emergency. The walls
are lined with shelves containing
necessary 'antiseptics, prophy-
lactics, gauzes and bandages for
the treatment of Commissions, abra-
sions, decorations and fractures.
The materials are sterilized and
properly labeled SO they can be
found easily and quickly.
CONSPICUOUS on one Of the
shelves and close at hand, es-
pecially during fishing season is a
pair o. sterile pliers similar to
those to be found in the me-
chanics' tool kit.
They a e conspiciously labeled
"Polvogt's Pliers" and removal of
this important instrument" is
practically under penalty of death.
The pliers are used to cut fish
hooks from the hands of fisher
men, and considered as vital to
Mrs. Polvogt as the scalpel is to
the surgeon upstairs.
"You can't pull the hook back
through the flesh the way it went
in" the supervisor said, you
have to cut the barb and pull it
on through"
Included in the equipment is an
Emerson respirator- iron lung
for use in cases of asphyxiation.
1t keeps company with the dis
tillery department = n~on-alcoholic
which is the source for the hos
pitfalls entire stock OF distilled
water.
Distilled water is used in steril-
ization processes throughout the
Institution, especially in the drug
department as the autoclave or
ste%rilizer sometimes finds itself
working around the clock to fur
nish distilled water for drug COM
pounding.
Pharmacist George Edmonds, of
Shelby, is in charge of the insti-
t%ution's drug department in the
basement. The department fur
nishes drugs for the entire insti-
tuition. |
Here efficiency will be found as
well as in Polvogt's first aid
rooms, as will be seen in the fact
that Edmonds had his state Ii
cense tackled on the wall several
days before the new year rolled
around.
Finally n to the
morgue Or post ROOM" That is
the final visit.
Sparing the gruesome details,
there is to be found the con-
vcntional ~dissecting table where
%autopsies r performed Sin case
there is a question as to the cause
of DEATH"
Arranged in neat rows along the
wall are various jars of different
sizes and shape which contain
parts of the human organs re-
moved by doctors.
Few persons, however, actually
reach the post room directly from
the emergency rooms, Mrs. Pol
vogt said, ut has been a long
I'm since a patient has died with
u.s. usually they come from up-
stars" She explained that her
answer was not a reflection on
other departments or members o.
the staff. %
FRENCH EVACUATED
HANOI, Indochina, Jan. 4-fP
french. garrisons were reported
tonight to have been evacuated
from Racninb and o,1,,o4L-.