The Pulmotor, for Emergency Rescue, Anonymous

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Emergency feature from the Weymouth Gazette, nineteen fourteen. This is
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Reading by Mepberard emergency feature from the Weymouth Gazette of

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July third, nineteen fourteen. In line with the telephone Company's
slogan service, First District Traffic Manager FD Field of the
Quincy District told a gazette and transcript reporter today of
a new emergency feature which the telephone company has adopted

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for the benefit of the public and without cost. For
several years, he said, our company has been doing everything
possible to handle quickly and act accurately emergency calls for
the police, FIR Department, hospitals and ambulances. Now we are

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adding to this list all calls for polemotors in cases
of electric shock, asphyxiation, partial drowning, and other accidents where
the administration of oxygen may be of vital importance. All
such calls may be made from a paystation as well
as from a business or residence telephone, especially during the summer.

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There are many instances where the prompt service of pollmotors
will save life. To this end, instructions have been issued
to our operators to be quick, cool headed, and resourceful
in responding to calls of this kind. If a person
calls in and says emergency pollmotor, the operator will immediately

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endeavor to put him into communication with the telephone at
the place where the pullmotor is located. Not only that,
but she will ask him if he wants a doctor,
and if a doctor is required. This fact will be
communicated to a supervisor, who will proceed to get a
doctor while the operator continues her effort to reach the

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telephone station at which the pullmotor is located. If she
finds the line is busy, she will interrupt conversation by
explaining the emergency. In emergency cases, much depends upon the
person making the call. The varying requirements in connection with
a pullmotor case make it essential that the person calling

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shall state the nature of the accident, the location of
the victim, and such other information as may be deemed pertinent.
It may be desirable to send several physicians or to
call ambulances, and the operator cannot know this unless the
person making the call tells her. A complete list of

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pollmotors has been placed in the operating room of every
city and town where there are pollmotors. This wonderful invention
has saved the lives of persons who were supposed to
have died thirty minutes before it was applied. It is
not wise to assume, therefore, that all hope has departed

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merely because a person's breathing has stopped. In some cases,
it has been necessary to continue this form of artificial
respiration for hours. In handling these calls, the operators are
admonished to think clearly and act quickly. If the same
admonition can be impressed upon the public, this cooperation ought

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to save a number of lives before the summer is ended.
End of emergency feature from the Weymouth Gazette of July three,
nineteen fourteen.