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Show . HOSPITAL CAR. i. , Oregon 6 lort Lino will Have ouo ntiho first of tho Your. The. Oregon (jhoft Ine, after the llrst of. tlio ynr, Mlllopcmi on Its lines a. movUig.uitfirrueiicy liospttai and rail road ambulance. 1'rcxldenL Bancroft aul other olllclals of tho road have had Uie matter (ijider consideration foreomr time, and tlin plans will he pel footed som. This. is tho first Hue In thu wifl to adopt tltO( idea. The lViinsylvnulr. anl the Now York Central nyn(nis Invo these hospitals, but they are not In generat Use. The Im'poHanco of sucli convenl-enco convenl-enco in case f an aceldeut Is Inrstl niablo. Where life and limit nro endangered en-dangered In case of o w leek, the hospital hos-pital car H dlspiitctied to tli scene and the patient hot only leccives tho best of treatment from the starl, but he will Immediately receive the car thaldie would get ht a honpitnl. Where accidents ac-cidents o'cllr at some distance from a liOHpllnl, pilllents are friiipntly unable to recover fiipm tbdr hiiurle-i iK-causo they could ndt ivcelyo the proper earn and treat meit I from the start. Under tho now arrangements a hospital hos-pital and ambulance can be ruhed to the scene at once. Imitations where life and limb have Wn .eivJangerHl because be-cause proper' appliances and aultablo means of cary weiv not (, hnnd are not infreipiciit. A case In point oeeured Miveral years ago on one of the northern divisions of die raid- An employe had ono of his limbs fractured so that the bono protruded through the flrsh and olothlng. A pbysican was huriled to the place, but In the hate of departure ant IseptlcH were forgotten. The. tract, uro was, reduced, but before tho victim could bo removed to n point where ho could have proper treatment,. mortUea-iHoiiHetnahdlnilPtiado mortUea-iHoiiHetnahdlnilPtiado amputated. Herald. |