Observations on the preliminary care and attention necessary for accidental bodily injuries and mutilations occurring in mines and establishments where many workpeople are employed / by T. Longmore.

  • Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: Observations on the preliminary care and attention necessary for accidental bodily injuries and mutilations occurring in mines and establishments where many workpeople are employed / by T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    for moving sick people as for moving wounded ones, but of course it would not be prudent to use the same litter for removing persons suffering from small-pox or infectious fevers, and for the conveyance of persons disabled by injuries or sick- ness of a non-infectious character. Two of these ambulance litters have been already procured by the Chapter, and one is now established at Burslem, under the direction of a Committee of the Order, and the other at Worcester, and as four others have been ordered, their practical advantages for the purposes contemplated will shortly be fully tested. It is a subject for congratulation that Surgeon-Major Manley, ^M., whose generous donation of money has enabled the Chapter to carry out Sir Edmund Lechmere's suggestion of the formation of an Ambulance Department, has consented to take general charge of this portion of the work of the Order, for no one could have been selected more competent to under- take the task. The second question is: Who are the persons to be trained to apply the means provided for administering the first help in cases of accident ? In all large establishments like collieries and factories, in order to ensure the persons who have been trained for ad- ministering help being constantly at hand, it seems to be essential that they should be persons forming part of the establishment in which the need of help may occur. The party should consist at least of one head as director, and four sub- ordinates for every hundred persons employed in the establish- ment ; or still better, if practicable, of six subordinates, so that the casual absence or disability of one or other of the party may not impair the efficiency of the help provided. If more than one party be formed, a chief director should be appointed. The head should always be a person of general intelligence and of acknowledged influence, and one who, in training, had ex- hibited the necessary aptitude and liking for the work. The subordinate aids should also be reliable persons selected for aptitude and willingness to undertake the charitable and re- sponsible duties of helping their wounded fellow-workers, and conveying them, if needed, to hospital. The chief of the party should be in charge of the surgical stores for accidents. Local means should be adopted to ensure a knowledge among all the persons employed in a given establishment of the arrangements made for meeting accidents, and especially for preventing delay