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Show PHYSICIAN SUMMONED BY RADIO ; The steam, hip West Carious, lying at anchor in Baltimore : harbor, about nine miles from ihe city, needed medical help at about 3 a. ni. recently and needed It quickly. A member of the crew ! j had fallen ir.to the held and had hurt himself seriously. So the!;; captain of she ship sent a wireless broadcast asking help. The rail was picked up, not in Baltimore, nine miles away, but : ,t Cane May, N. J., about 100 mils due east of Baltimore. As j Cape May was separated from the West Cohous by parts of New ; Jersey and Delaware and by the eastern shore of Maryland, not to mention Delaware and Chesapeake bays, no direct help from it ! was possible. But the operator was or. the job. Promptly he consulted the . long distance list in the Baltimore telephone directory and called the . surgeon in charge of the Marine Hospital in Baltimore -100 miles to the west. The surgeon, roused from sleep to receive the me;- -sage, asked him to radio certain emergency treatment to the West Cahous and to direct the captain to send a boat to a certain pier in Baltimore, where he would find a surgeon waiting to go out to the ship with him. And so, in the middle of the night, in less than an hour, a wireless-controlled sea-going ambulance carrying an officer reached the side of the injured sailor and brought him later to the hospital. |