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partially from the town stables as the society have lately bought two horses for themselves. For
removal of cases of infectious disease a special wheeled litter is used.
There are also in Munich volunteer sanitary stations of the Red Cross which were founded in
the same year, though somewhat earlier than the Volunteer Society.
Cologne.
In Cologne in 1888 a Samaritan Society was founded which erected a number of stations; they
are placed at various parts of the city and consist of a chest which contains a litter and a case of
bandages. The litter is covered and can be drawn out ready for use. The Samaritan Society has been
affiliated lately with the Red Cross.
In 1899 the Cologne Life-saving Society of the Red Cross was founded under medical supervision.
The stations are in various hospitals and there are now 13 in Cologne fairly equally distributed
over the city. A central office is now in existence. The fire brigade manages the removal of the
sick. The society has also undertaken to provide for the Red Cross nurses and attendants in case of war.
Hamburg.
There is one sanitary station in Hamburg which has a night service, and from 11 to 1 a day
service during which time a medical man is on duty. A plan has besides been formed in Hamburg to
use the hospitals as stations for first-aid, as has been successfully done in Berlin. In addition to tbe
stations maintained by private funds there is an excellent system for the transport of the sick which
has been arranged by the police authorities. The removal system is so organised that a sufficient
number of vehicles for cases of infectious disease are at 4 depots of a livery stable keeper which can
be easily telephoned for from any police station. There is besides a carriage for the removal of several
persons injured simultaneously.
Nuremberg.
The volunteer sanitary ambulance train of the Red Cross in Nuremberg has organised a lifesaving
system, and a sanitary station exists which, situated nearly in the centre of the town, wa3
formerly occupied by volunteer sanitary officials, but lately the service has been maintained by
medical men interchanging. The removal of the sick takes place in their own vehicles.
Danzig.
An accident station has been arranged at Legan, in the neighbourhood of Danzig, a room on
the ground floor of a factory having been fitted out with all necessary appliances in which persons
in the factory meeting with accidents can be treated by those members of the Red Cross who have
been trained. The station ia under medical control.
Leipzig.
In Leipzig, as in most of Saxony, the life-saving system is arranged in an extraordinarily
suitable and satisfactory manner by Samaritan associations. That in Leipzig was founded in June
1882. The association has three sanitary stations, each supervised by a medical man, while the
service in the stations is maintained by medical men living in the neighbourhood. The medical men
remain at home when on duty, and are called to the station by telephone or messenger; they receive
from the association the fee for the aid given according to a specially fixed rate. The medical men of
the association, whose staff consist of paid and volunteer members, both being in a military uniform,
instruct the police and fire brigade men, officials on the railway and private individuals in first-aid.
In the stations are litters, one carriage on the Vienna model, and belonging to the Samaritan
Association, is placed in the principal fire station and can be quickly fetched by telephone message.
Horses and coachmen are provided by the fire brigade.
This association has also erected small stations in places where crowds congregate, viz.,
markets, slaughter-houses, fire and police stations, theatres, railway stations. These are provided
with a surgeon's dresser as well as a litter and bandages.
The removal of the sick is in the hands of the local authority; in the city hospital are a number
of carriages which on demand immediately go to bring in the patient.
Dresden.
In Dresden the Samaritan Society has organised the life-saving system while the removal of
the sick is arranged for by the sanitary police. The Samaritan Society was founded in May, 1896.
At first it confined its energy to giving courses of instruction in first aid; later, however, it organised
the life-saving arrangements. It now has three sanitary stations, the first of which was opened in
1898, the 6econd was erected on the site of the town relief station. There are in Dresden seven
surgical relief places, of which four are attached to hospitals. For removal of persons injured in the streets
or taken suddenly ill a carriage ready to start is kept in the chief fire station, and they go as rapidly
as a fire engine to a fire. The order can be given by word of mouth or by telephone at a fire station,
or at the nearest sanitary police etation. Every carriage is accompanied by a fireman and a sanitary
police official trained in first-aid. A third carriage is in reserve in the city stables. In every district
police station, in the slaughterhouse and the town hall are hand-litters, sedan chair carriers (on duty
day and night) acting as bearers.
Shirley F. Murphy,
Medical Officer.