British medical journal . apher;of twenty - fivet u 11 y - t r a i n e dEnglish nurses, ahouse-surgeon, andfour dressersdrawn from Lon-don hospilals. Be-sides these, thereare eight or ninepersons who, al-though amateurs,play an importantpart in the hos-pitaFs work; thereare, for instance,four men—one anold English resi-lient in Paris,another a Frcnch-uian usually an in-habitant of Lou-don, and all ofgood social posi-tion, who act asbrancardicrs, orstretcher-bearers;they move patientsabout the hospitalwhen required, go out with the ambulance to meetthe hospital trains, and do a great many odd j
British medical journal . apher;of twenty - fivet u 11 y - t r a i n e dEnglish nurses, ahouse-surgeon, andfour dressersdrawn from Lon-don hospilals. Be-sides these, thereare eight or ninepersons who, al-though amateurs,play an importantpart in the hos-pitaFs work; thereare, for instance,four men—one anold English resi-lient in Paris,another a Frcnch-uian usually an in-habitant of Lou-don, and all ofgood social posi-tion, who act asbrancardicrs, orstretcher-bearers;they move patientsabout the hospitalwhen required, go out with the ambulance to meetthe hospital trains, and do a great many odd jobsui the way of cleaning up and sweeping. Thereare also several ladies, some French, some English,whose services arc equally valuable. They act as inter-preters for the nurses and staff when required, writeletters for patients, and assist in various otlicr smallbut highly useful ways. One of them, for instance,knows shorthand well, and, attending at all operations,takes down a dictated note as to the work done. Another. of these vo-jnteers—a lady to be seen in one of the pic-tures—plays a, still more ijlipovLanD part in the workof the hospital. Practically every night the ambulancewagon attached to the hospital goes out to Aubervilliers,where all hospital trains bound southwards stop for auhour or two, and returns in the morning sometimes empty,sometimes fulL She always goes out with it, aud it is largely owing taher taot and energythat the staff ofthe hospital ingaining so muchexperielice of mili-tary surgery. Atany rate, I fancythat they are get-ting placed in theircharge a largerproportion of casesrequiring immedi-ate operative inter-ference than arcn)ost of the Britshsurgeons now atwork in Paris. Outwo evenings thatI visited the hos-pital I was present-during the per-formance of six orseven operations,and can testify tothe high standardof the work staff was alsalucky in being scut out from Paris soon after the battleof Meaux to a station where several train
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