AMBULANCE EQUIPMENTS CARRIED BY MULES OR HORSES. Need of good Mule Equipment for our varying wars-The WHEELED AMBULANCE EQUIPMENT AND SICK-TRANSPORT Ambulance Equipment Waggons-The Surgery Waggon of the Bearer Company-The Pharmacy Waggon of the Field Hospital-The Store Waggon of the Field Hospital-The Kitchen Waggon of a Field Hospital-The Water Cart- The Laundry Waggon-The Electric Light Waggon-The Army Regulation Sick-transport Waggon-Its construction -The Austrian Red Cross Sick-transport Waggon-The United States Rucker plan of arrangements of Seats and Stretchers Civil Ambulance Sick-transport Waggon- The Howard Sick-transport Waggon-Davy's Ambulance Waggon-The Furley Sick-transport Waggon-The Atkin- RAILWAY AMBULANCE AND SICK-TRANSPORT SYSTEMS. Crimean Railway carriage of Sick-The younger Baron Larrey's work-Dr. Gurlt's efforts-The American Railway Sick- transport systems-Description of Baron Mundy's organiza- tion of the Austrian Maltese Knights Order's Ambulance Trains-Descriptions of the various carriages in it—Extem- porised use of Railway Carriages for Sick-transport— CHAPTER XII. MARINE AMBULANCE ARRANGEMENTS. Various Rope Knots used by Sailors in carrying wounded men— PAGE 369 CHAPTER XIII. AMBULANCE TENTS AND HUTS. Proposals for the more general use of Huts and Tents in Infectious CONCLUSION 381 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. FIG. PLAN OF THE AMBULANCE ARRANGEMENTS OF ENGLISH AMBULANCE SOLDIER FIG. 27. THE ENGLISH SICK-TRANSPORT WAGGON.. 28. SICK-TRANSPORT WAGGON (AUSTRIAN RED CROSS) 33. DAVY'S AMBULANCE WAGGON .. .. 34. THE FURLEY AMBULANCE WAGGON 351 352 360 IN 37, 38. SICK-TRANSPORT RAILWAY AMBULANCE TRAINS CARRIAGE-AUSTRIAN 39. ZAVODOVSKY'S METHOD OF STRETCHER-SUSPENSION IN A RAILWAY GOODS WAGGON 40. GRUND'S SYSTEM OF CONVERTING A GOODS WAGGON 43. MACDONALD'S NAVAL AMBULANCE LIFT .. 48. THE AMBULANCE STEAMER RED CROSS'.. 49. SECTION OF A HOSPITAL SHIP 50. PLAN OF UPPER DECK, 'VICTOR EMMANUEL' 51. PLAN OF HOSPITAL DECK, DITTO 52. ENGLISH CIRCULAR TENT AND HOSPITAL MARQUEE 53. AMERICAN HOSPITAL TENTS Z::: AMBULANCE ORGANIZATION, EQUIPMENT AND TRANSPORT. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY, I PROPOSE in the following pages to deal in a simple and entirely popular manner with the highly interesting subject of Ambulance Organization, Equipment and Transport. I propose to treat the whole subject, whether as regards its application to the naval and military forces of the country for war purposes, or to the far larger needs of the civil population for the aid of those suffering from sickness or accident in ordinary every-day life, altogether from a popular standpoint, and to deal with the subjects in such a manner that the chance visitor to the Health Exhibition may be able to form some idea, however elementary, of what ambulance matters mean. The specialist in such subjects will find in these pages little that is novel. The pamphlet is entirely a compilation, and very few lines indeed will be original. In dealing in this primer with so large a subject it will be seen that only a very brief notice can be given of each separate group, but, as far as possible, reference will be made, pointing out where those interested in the subject can find fuller information. By ambulance organization, equipment and transport, one means those various arrangements, whether for the military or civil needs of the people, by which first aid and |