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Dr. Raymond, Head of the Health De partment, Says That No Fee Can Be Exacted. An instance where money was paid to an ambulance, surgeon while he was in discharge of his duties, has come to ight in connec tion with the death of Otto Lasche at the Long Island College Hospital on Saturday night. Young Lasche was injured by the fall of an elevator at 111 Montague street on Friday afternoon, and an ambulance was summoned from the Long Island College Hospital by Robert Day, the janitor. J. R. Schlichting, by whom Lasche was employed, was also notified. According to Schlichting, the ambulance surgeon demanded $5, before he would take the boy to the hospital, as the case was not a police call. “Schlichting, be ing ignorant of the law, complied with the request and demanded a receipt. The sur geon did not give him one, stating that he had no blank with him. The grocer de manded that he be taken to the hospital to see the superintendent. The request was complied with, but at the hospital the sur geon could not find the superintendent, and Schlichting, unable to leave his business longer, went away. When, later in the day, he learned that there was no legal charge for the ambulance service in the city, he de cided to make the matter public. This morn ing he said that he intended to take the mat ter to the Department of Health. At the hospital, Dr. Shaw, the superinten dent, refused to discuss the matter, but re ferred all inquiries to the Health Depart ment, . On looking up the records he found that Dr. P. Lothrop had been the surgeon in charge of the case. Dr. Lothrop, when seen did not deny the taking of money, but in explanation said: “The call came to the hospital over, the private wire. The physician there had fixed Lasche up and they wanted him removed to the hospital. It was not a police case ,and, as it is customary to pay the ambulance sur geon for removals, I asked for some com pensation. At the Health Department, Dr. Raymond, the new head, said that there was no charge whatsoever for ambulance service in the city and that there had not been any since Dr. Emery did away with it. The charge origin ated, he said, at the time the city paid livery stable keepers to keep the horses and am bulances of the Health Department. Then, for all removals from houses to the hospital it was customary’ to pay a nominal fee. When Dr. Emery took charge of the depart ment, he refused to permit charges for any service whatsoever, and since that time the ambiance service has been free’ to the pub lic, whether the police or a private citizen sent in the call. Dr. Raymond was much in terested in the matter and has already taken steps to investigate it.
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York, US
Mon, Jan 06, 1902
Page 13
Full Page
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Nathaniel S.
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