. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . ad broken,and rendered it necessary to place ironsafety-bars beneath the upper Esmarch commends theWurtemberg hospital trains becauseend doors were uniformly placed inthe cars. Surgeon-in-Chief Lower has printedan article on the value of the Hamburg hospital trains, composed of coveredfreight wagons. On leaving Hamburg the train consisted of three or four cars—a passenger car, containing the personnel—and bo
. A report on a plan for transporting wounded soldiers by railway in time of war : with descriptions of various methods employed for this purpose on different occasions . ad broken,and rendered it necessary to place ironsafety-bars beneath the upper Esmarch commends theWurtemberg hospital trains becauseend doors were uniformly placed inthe cars. Surgeon-in-Chief Lower has printedan article on the value of the Hamburg hospital trains, composed of coveredfreight wagons. On leaving Hamburg the train consisted of three or four cars—a passenger car, containing the personnel—and box-cars filled with bedding,stoves, cooking and eating utensils, chests of bandages and appliances, medicines,and provisions,—material for one hundred and sixty patients. On the route * Sigel (A.) Die Wurttemhergischen Sanitdtszuge in den Kriegsjahren 1870 und 1871, Stuttgart,1870, SS. 20, 37. A detailed account is given of the personnel and matiriel of a hospital train,which consisted of fifteen carriages, including a store-car, a commissary-car, a kitchen-car, aear for officers, a car for attendants, two for slightly wounded, and eight for severely Fig. 40.—Part of a Wurtemberg hospital car.[After Sigel.] AND WOUNDED ON EAIL EOADS. 37 as many empty freight cars were taken on as the locomotive could draw, andthese were fitted up, while the train was in motion, from the material on thestore-cars. The mode of suspension was devised by Herr Hennicke, an en-gineer of Hamburg, and consisted of a strong iron claw, tightened by a screw
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