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Show EMERGENCY TREATS 1184 CASES IN ISIS Encounter With Stranger Brings Knife Victim as First 1917 Patient. Jack McDonald, 24 years of ase, of 634 South Twelfth West street, bears the distinction dis-tinction of being the first person to be admitted to the city emergency hospital in 1917. He was taken in at 6:45 o'clock last night, suffering from wounds in the right hand and the left leg. the result of being attacked hy a stranger on West First South stieet, between West Temple and Main streets. McDonaM said that he was standing outside of a restaurant when a man he had never met hefore lunged at htm with a. knife. McDonald saw the gleam of the blade and instinctively placed his right j hand over his heart. The next moment ! the knife pierced the back of his hand. McDonald grappled with his assailant and threw him to the ground. The as-, as-, eailant, while struggling on the ground. stabbed McDonald in the left leg and succeeded in escaping while the injured man attended to his wounds. After being attended to at the emergency emer-gency hospital, McDonald was able to go home. The police were given a description descrip-tion of the assailant and an earlv arrest is expected, for it is relieved the man Is known to a few of the officers. During 1916 there were 11S4 cases treated at the hospital, compared with 744 in 1915. Owing to increased work, it is believed .that the staff at the hospital hos-pital will be increased. William Robin-eon, Robin-eon, employed at the hospital, mav be transferred to have charge of the ambulance ambu-lance which is now being made. This ambulance will be operated by the police department and, it is believed, will provide pro-vide for greater efficiency in attending to persons injured. |