Show SURGERY MAKES RAPID PROGRESS Professor Tells of Improved ved Treatment Methods Method for for- Accidents Progress In Jn surgical treatment of accident patients was reported Wednesday Wednesday Wed by Dr Allen B B. B Kanaval of Chicago professor of surgery at N Northwestern university and a delegate delegate dele gate to the American College of Surgeons Surgeons Surgeons' Surgeons Surgeons' Sur Sur- geons' geons sectional meeting here Efficiency in this treatment has increased 10 per cent in the last ten years Dr Kanaval said Fifteen years ago about 16 per cent of ot hospitals hospitals hos has having or more beds were properly equipped for handling accident ned acci dent victims most mast efficiently Now about about 94 94 per cent of such institutions arc are well equipped and smaller ones arc are Improving their facilities Dr Kanaval said that prompt treatment treatment treat treat- ment is necessary in jn accidents in which the skin has been broken Cases involving fractures of ot long bones which have not penetrated the skin can be transported considerable distances without danger he added Dr Kanaval reported progress in technique of skull and spinal operations opera in accident cases explaining that simpler methods arc being used wed wedin in operating on fractured red skulls |