. The street railway review . eon. July 15. RAILWAY 423 Uniform Standards of i:xaMiination of Kail-way Employes.* IIV lli(, I-. II, 1MC( K, I IIIKI- SUHCEIIN, ITUA & MDIIAUK en. I am placrd ill a pu^ilioii nf Minir niiliiirrassnu-iil in ciiiniiiK lufnrca foiivcntidii of iiu-ii i-iii^iiucil in iIh> cxcculivt (li-iiarlnicnK of rail-way inaiiaKiHH-nl. uilii a |ri|irr vvliuli ha- Id deal wilfly with med-ical c|iicsli(ins, III llicir nlaliMii t<i llic |iiilicy of llif railway siir-Kical diparlmcnl. In order to make myself perfoelly elcar lo the laymi
. The street railway review . eon. July 15. RAILWAY 423 Uniform Standards of i:xaMiination of Kail-way Employes.* IIV lli(, I-. II, 1MC( K, I IIIKI- SUHCEIIN, ITUA & MDIIAUK en. I am placrd ill a pu^ilioii nf Minir niiliiirrassnu-iil in ciiiniiiK lufnrca foiivcntidii of iiu-ii i-iii^iiucil in iIh> cxcculivt (li-iiarlnicnK of rail-way inaiiaKiHH-nl. uilii a |ri|irr vvliuli ha- Id deal wilfly with med-ical c|iicsli(ins, III llicir nlaliMii t<i llic |iiilicy of llif railway siir-Kical diparlmcnl. In order to make myself perfoelly elcar lo the laymind, I shall endeavor to divesi ny siilijeol of all leeluiical termsas much as possihie. To increase the factor of safely to the nlniosl. conipatilile withtin- rapid transportation demanded liy tlie streiuioiis times in whichwe live, must lie the endeavor of ,ill railway managers. A recentnewspaper article inform- me that in icjn,? Ilie iminlier of person-killed and iiiinreil on the raiKva\s in the Inilefl State- reached a. UK. K. II. IEl K. total of more than Of tlii- Kreat nnmher I lielicve that alargi proportion were injured throiijili their own carelessness, oreontrihntory negligence. But it is possihie to reduce the nuniher ofcasualties hy improving the personnel of railway employes. Theonly way to accomplish this result is hy the estahlishment of uni-form standards of examination, in the hands of competent sur-geons, of all applicants for positiors in the operative service of therailways, with rules reqnirinfj the re-examination of these employes,as often as once in li\e years, rr after recovery from serious dinessor injury. At the first ylance it would -eeni that the re-ponsihilitics of theelectric motonnan arc not nearly great as those of the engine-driver on the steam roads, as the lighter load renders the mo-mentum of the electric car hut a small fraction of that of the heavysteam train, and emergency stops can he made in much shorterspace. This difference
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