# THE CITY AMBULANCE.

BEFORE the introduction of ambulances in connection with our city hospitals, persons who met with severe accidents in the street, which disabled them from walking, were often put in peril of life by the rough means used for their conveyance to a place where they could have surgical treatment. They were laid on a truck, or in an express wagon, and jolted over the rough pavements with little regard to their sufferings by the way. Sometimes it would have been better to let the unfortunate patient die where he was than to attempt to remove him in this barbarous manner.

The well-appointed ambulance service has changed all this. There is a sufficient number of ambulance stations in the city to make it practicable to summon one of these easy and comfortable conveyances within a few minutes, by telegraph, to any place where a serious accident has occurred. Experienced and capable attendants place the sufferer quietly, and without causing needless pain, upon a stretcher, which is then lifted into the ambulance, and the drive to the hospital inflicts no additional torture upon the bruised or lacerated limbs.

The ambulance of which we give an illustration on page 425 is intended for the use of sufferers of the human species only. Mr. BERGH has had ambulances of another form constructed for the conveyance of sick or disabled animals through our streets, thereby proving himself a friend not only to dumb animals, but to all persons of human sensibilities, who can not witness with indifference the needless infliction of pain upon creatures that can not protest against cruel usage.