Observations on the preliminary care and attention necessary for accidental bodily injuries and mutilations occurring in mines and establishments where many workpeople are employed / by T. Longmore.

  • Longmore, Sir Thomas, 1816-1895.
Date:
[1874]
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Credit: Observations on the preliminary care and attention necessary for accidental bodily injuries and mutilations occurring in mines and establishments where many workpeople are employed / by T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ON THE Freliminary Care and Attention necessary for Accidental Bodily Injuries and Mutilations occurring in Mines and Establish)?ie?its where many Workpeople are Employed. Mv Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen—Hospitallers, The Secretary of the Order, Sir Edmund Lechmere, who appears not to be satisfied with the good works he is already engaged in, but to be constantly on the look out for fresh opportunities of exertion pro utilitate hominuih, has asked me to furnish a short paper on the care and conveyance of injured persons in peace time, with particular reference to the ining and Colliery Districts where accidents are frequent In obedience to that request, I beg to submit the following notes, merely prefacing them with the remark that I have taken the liberty of considering the necessities of injured persons, not only in mines and collieries, but in all situations where bodies of people are collected together under conditions which render them liable to meet with grave injuries requiring hospital treatment. In every establishment in which many persons are employed and in which the nature either of the occupations followed, or of the machinery in use, entails risk of accidents and injuries,'there ought to be some arrangements made beforehand for dealing efficiently with these casualties should they happen to occur! The necessity for such a provision is all the greater in propor- tion to the distance at which the establishment is placed from a hospital, or'from skilled surgical aid. But even when profes- sional aid is not far off, the means of affording immediate preliminary help ought still to be provided ; for this preliminary