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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1915 N, 5 PUBLIC SAFETY BUILDING NOW HOUSES ONE EQUAL TO THE BEST in Every ParticuMod ern and lar, It Is Designed to Meet the Wants of a Rapidly Growing City for Years to Come; Has Accomodations for Thirty ln Addition to Emergency and Up-to-Da- tc V First Aid Work, Clinics in Dental Work, Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Practice Are Held, Free of Charge for Children Financially Unable to Pay for a Specialist; Conducted Under Supervision of Board of Persons With Surgeon and Nurse in Constant Attendance When the Occasion Expert Ready at All Arises; First-Ai- d Times. Health in health department and highly commends the of the professional men who have volunteered their services for the maintenance of the clinics. "One does not need to be told," said Dr. Paul, "of the value of our teeth, eyes, ears, nose and throat in the plan of our lives. The clinics were not established from thoughts of charity, but 'rather from a conception of duty and necessity so that, however poor, none may fail to get the best care necessary to help develop the child into a healthy, happy and efficient citizen. There is no doubt but that the time of childhood is not only best for developing its intellect, but also its body. The clinics mean the laying of a foundation in the child for a physically healthy body to contain the educated mind essential in the development of morally and physically healthy citizens." co-operat- ion -- u i -. first-clas- s - : 'f r7!?1 - - ave---g- I '1 v .. - 'NiSoy . Dream Eealized. The new emergency hospital has been the dream of Dr. II. 1J. 9ft . dis-pt-ns- er ton-sori- al lPP,-:- police-station- new-emergenc- Am f. .. ; u 1 Jf--- - 4 !' 2 1 r V. g tJA.v,' 5 5 ,v v 1 - ---- --- ht , ap-plianc- long-neede- cs 1 Sprague. After working for years under a handicap in the jail room the police surgeon's hopes have been realized. Dr. Sprague has full charge of the emergency hospital for the board of health and direct the methods of its operation. II? answers every call from the both day and night. He either is always within call or provides an assistant to take his place. Sleeping and living quarters have been provided in the hospital for the nurses and steward. Friends and relatives who do not wish to leave the bedside of a patient may be served with a light lunch In one of the reception rooms. Food and nourish-men- t are prepared for patients too critical to be moved. On the same floor as the clinics is the health department laboratory where disease cultures are developed and studied and where the milk and water supply of the city is tested regularly for the detection and prevention of adulterations and impurities. Off from the laboratory is a private office and consultation room for attending physicians tastefully furnished. During the day the hospital is in charge of Miss Luella Francy, a nurse of wide experience, who has worked in every branch of the board of health. Miss Francy s duties include assisting the dentists and specialists in the clinics and acting as the representative of the board of health during all clinical work. When an anaesthetic is necessary for an operation at the clinic the child will be put to bed and cared for by the nurse until sufficiently recovered to be taken ; d air-tig- ht With sonal interest in this branch of the . . ion Professional Men of the City But it was not the mODAY Salt Lake boasts one of stalled. X the most modem and tip to; equipment asked for by the board! date municipal emergency hospitals of health. But Mich as it was it in the west, or even the entire coun- - enabled in a way emergency casct tjrt-- ur ;u ir.e jaw. try. Iut it v.a-- not always so. i nciiw aci Did Service 17 Years. evolution of all things m?nal deSuch was Salt Lake's emergency company iug the progress and velopment the twentieth century hospital for more than seventeen ha; brought has resulted in a de- year?, and in that period persons of city for a all walks of life had been carried mand in every place cany of access, where thoc up the narrow stairs r.nd placed on who have the misfortune to suffer the makeshift operating table. Poinjury in the course of the day's licemen were the nurses. Frework or are the victims of acci- quently spectators gathered around v j dents tr.av 10 rushed for "tir-- aid" and usually hampered the work of The demand has tecn the doctor. Many major operaservice. pttal is in charge of William Robt'.ng felt in Salt Lake, but with tions were performed under these inson, hospital steward, and Miss the acquisition of the new public circumstance?. Teresa Stephens, a nurse trained in was wav the paved building Number of Culls Grows. safety emergency work. Mr. Robinson for filling this demand and today's The number of emergency calls formerly had charge of the hospital Salt Lake emergency hospital H gradually grew ' from an average at Tooele and was brought to Salt readv to take care of any and all f one a week to the c Lake when the new present emergency hoscases where medical or surgical of four each day. The duties pital was opened. He has had wide services arc needed ami needed of Dr. Spraguc as assistant city experience in first aid and is also a health commissioner was to take member of the National Red Cross. quickly. Hut it v. a; not always so. care of the police emergency He disclaims any knowledge of the t, SIS''-,in Salt a time Lake, was There cases. His duties now as police medical profession as his duties refar distant, however, when the surgen are such that he has little quire that he render only first aid ba"rler acted frequently as the time to devote to other branches of and alleviate until the arof fiVt aid. Emergency the board of health. Policemen no rival of a suffering Mr. Robinphysician. cases uit often rushed to the longer assist him in the hospital son, however, attends to all minor barber The stopped parlor. work. They have been replaced cases brought to the hospital and the click nf his clippers or laid by trained and experienced nurses. accompanies the patrol wagon tb aside his ra.ro r to apply his salves The makeshift operating table and the serious accidents where his or ointments or bandage up the pa- the family medicine chest are only of first aid work enables tient as best he might. Then there memories of the past. The gap- knowledge him to give the patient the greatcame the advent of the drug store ping, curious crowd of onlookers est possible degree of comfort on a a modem and well equipped first no longer are there to hamper the the way to the hospital. Victims of burns, work of the aid tatinn. In the case of a large accident physician. lie is left scald-- , sunstroke, accidents and in alone to close the wounds or save or fire in which several persons fact nil forms of emergency cases the lives of his patients at a time might be injured there is adequate were usually taken to the nearest when minutes are room for the care of all as in the precious. ilru; .store, where the pharmacist Before the advent of the new new hospital there is accommodawould dispense his meager knowl- new hospijal, there were few cases tion for more than thirty patients. the aid to of first injured. edge of a serious nature that could be Nine trained nurses and four phyThere is rarely a cac now where cared for properly in hc jail room. sicians employed by the city board an injured person is taken to a Patients were often brought several of health arc subject to call in such barb.r shop or drug store, and the miles to the emergency hospital in an emergency. According to Dr. ..V drug store "Doc" has lost his for- a lying condition. Delays were Samuel G. head of the board Paul, mer '"practice" and devotes his time sometimes caused in waiting for o health, this organization can be to making pills, salves, ointments the arrival of the doctor. :.;--fv If in less an the at hospital emergency well but and compounds, they immediate operation was necsary than thirty minutes after the call are that the served gone. days the patient was ordered to a hos- is issued. In later days the few emergency Clinic Department. eases that were attended by the pital. There is a now in the A new and interesting feature of I druggist or taken to a private hos- heart of the hospital Views of Salt Lake's new emer where the most which new and city one the hospital were taken to police headquar- serious pital and critical emergency has no connection with the police I Kency ho?itnl and the men who eon- ters and cared for in the chief's pri- cases are given immediate atten- emergency work, is the clinic dednct It. Upper, main operating; room vate office, a sort of courtesy or tion. Some arc even given first aid partment. There is a dental clinic accommodation n the part of the to relieve their suffering lie fore and also one for eye, ear, nose and (left) cltj- health rommlnnloner, xvho police department. This was at a time when emergency calls would they reach the station. All the throat. Both rooms arc especially I li In charise of the conduct of the science known to the medical pro- arranged ami equipped for the I not average more than one per hoftpltal; William nolilnsion (renter), fession can be applied at the new work that is to be carried on by exweek. expert "flrftt nA" attendant at the ! denThere in each arc The the hospital. profession. necessary perts , work All Police emergency who hospital, and Dr. II. n. SpraR-iieand is of the dental clinic the tal care appliances to equipment envy was the to assigned eventually l In active charge at the hoapltnli for the mot serious and critical profession with its beautiful apboard of health and when the rechelorr them I the room wherein ord of the first week showed a emergency. The furnishings of pointments and the last word in "the free noe, ear, eye and dental total of more than 200 caes, the' wards and rooms of Salt Lake's equipment. Few can sec beyond I clinic are held at the bottom in the hospitals do not cxcell those a chair and various murderous-lookinI matter of building and equipping private on the third in floor a dental of the ftterillzliicr room where all iimtrii- Public office, forceps an emergency hospital was taken ment are thoroughly- aterillzed be- before the city council. There was Safety building. There is a trained but here one can see a work of art fore une. no action taken by the city authori- nurse in attendance every hour of in the unit installation of the most the day and night. an electric motor for modern type; ties on the request of the board of f instruments of various Envy folPhysicians. purposes, it was and until health the not All patients taken to the emer- trays, gas and electric attachments clarcd they were financially unable new lowing year, when the city jail was constructed, that the matter re- gency hospital arc removed to their and the supply of water. All of to send their children to a dentist. Such was the majority of the reXo provision homes or another hospital within which arc essential to carry on the ceived attention. hours, except in cases work of the clinic. was made for an emergency hos- forty-eigports which came back to Dr. Samuel G. Paul, who, with the aid of Go Into the Home. pital in the plans of the new jail where the condition is such that a From the lxxird of health reports the Salt Lake County Dental socibuilding and it was not until after move would impair the health of its completion that a spare 10x12 the patient. The new operating of the nurses who visit every public ety, immediately formulated a plan room was given over to the board room is large, well lighted and well school in Salt Lake three times a for the establishment of a dental of health for use as an emergency ventilated, possessing new vand week, it is learned that hundreds of clinic where children's teeth might modern sanitary appliances. There children were suffering from de- be given proper attention free of hospital. Xc.xt there came the question of is a complete assortment of instru- cayed andeglected teeth. As this charge, cabinet. The condition impairs the health and ef The same condition existed in equipment. An impropriation was ments in an is table the asked for the purchase of a operating envy of local ficiency of the child, the' nurses f the schools in regard to eye, ear, A steriliz- were sent into homes of the chil- nose and throat trouble. Several steam large sterilizer, instruments, operating physicians. er for the preparation of dressing, dren for the purpose of teaching local specialists were consulted by table, cabinet and other sanitary and necessary accessories bandages and instruments has both child and parent the value of Dr. Paul with the result that for the vacant room that was to be leen installed at a cost of more proper care and attention to the plans were made at the same time d the and much talked than S 200. teeth. The result of these personal for a clinic where children who arc of hospital. The appropriation calls by the nurses was that more unable to pay, may have their tonExpert First Aid Man. came and some equipment was in After 6 o'clock at night, the hos- - than per cent of the parents dc- - sils removed, or those afflicted t Co-operat- with adenoids, defective vision or hearing may be treated free of charge. Dr. Paul took the matter before the city commission and an appropriation was made for the establishment of the clinics. Members of the Salt Lake Dental society offered their services free and will have charge of the clinic under the supervision of the board of health. Although there has been no opening yet, it is thought the work will start this month. One dentist from the society will be at the clinic three times a week. All forms of dental work will be done and the patients allowed to return to school with the least possible delay. Nine local specialists have al ready volunteered their services for the other clinic, which also will open three times a week on alternate days from the dental clinic. Children examined by the nurses in the schools and who are found to be suffering from eye,. ear, nose or throat trouble and whose parents are unable to take them. to a specialist, are sent home with an order to appear at the clinic and be examined by the doctor. If an examination of a patient shows that glasses are necessary to improve vision, and the parents of the child are unable to make the purchase, the child will receive the glasses from those in charge, of the clinic or the board of health. Dr, Paul has taken a keen per- , home. , y ' PROLONGS LIFE OF BRIDGE Composition of Iend and Oil Wards Agninst Corrosion. The problem of protecting steel bridges over railroad tracks against the corrosive action of locomotive gases blast action of the stack and the sand been a serious and costly exhaust has scientists. In some recent puzzle for the entire under surface of structures the bridge is coated with cement, but this is a very expensive process. A Buffalo engineer recently devised a novel makeshift for this expensive the steel with a process. He coated material which in principle coanbines manner the properin an inexpensive ties belonging to both paint and concrete. After the steel had been erected a coat of red lead and oil was applied, mixed in the proportions of twenty-fiv- e gallons of lead to each gallon of linseed oil. World's Advance. Policemen of Berkeley, Cal., are to be to attend the of required California. This will be Universty the first college-bred police department in the country. The course of study is in tha relation of mental disease to criminoloit is gy, which will aid a policemanstudy, in sizing thought, up his man. |