. 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 . a by order of the Minister of Com-merce. They offier many advantages fca:the transport of wounded men. They arewell lighted and well ventilated; the pa- YlG. SI.—End elevation of half of a North . , t . ,-, t ^ i re German fourth-class car, arranged as in the tients lie in them COmmodlOUsly and Suffer preceding cut. [After Guelt.] little from jolts; the beds are accessible, owing to the width of the passage which extends thro
. 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 . a by order of the Minister of Com-merce. They offier many advantages fca:the transport of wounded men. They arewell lighted and well ventilated; the pa- YlG. SI.—End elevation of half of a North . , t . ,-, t ^ i re German fourth-class car, arranged as in the tients lie in them COmmodlOUsly and Suffer preceding cut. [After Guelt.] little from jolts; the beds are accessible, owing to the width of the passage which extends through the entire length ofthe wagon; consequently dressings can be made with all desirable regularity;the wagons are connected by drawbridges, and this permits supervision of thewounded and the arrest of accidents, such as those caused by haemorrhage, etc.,and the number of hospital attendants can be lessened. The method of sus-pending the litters is preferable to the American plan, which served as its model,since the side poles of the stretchers cannot strike against the posts, as in theother. Dr. Grurlt goes on to comment on the system of converting fourth-class. AND WOUNDED ON RAIL ROADS. 33 cars. To make the system complete, however, a special car is required, joined tothe others by platforms and drawbridges. This car would be assigned to thesanitary personnel. Here the attendants could wait and repose, could storeand prepare food, refreshments, medicines, dressings, instruments, etc. Passen-ger cars on the system in common use in the north of Germany are altogetherunsuited to this end. They do not afford the necessary space for the objectsthat should be kept on hand or prepared; their doors opening on the sides,the persons conveyed on them can communicate with the other cars only at therailway stations. The organization above described, on the other hand, permitsthe attendants who accompany the train at all times to exercise an efficientcontrol, and to render each other mu
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