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Description: | A small crowd has gathered around a police-operated hand litter at the site of an incident on 23 June 1906.
In 1903, City policemen took some 1,705 people to hospital, half of them strapped to one of these hand-litters. These same vehicles were used to convey drunks to the cells of the six City police stations then in existence!
They were not ideal, however, as they were slow to reach the person needing help, did not carry any first aid equipment and were operated by unskilled people. A further consideration was the 'exposure of the patient to the view, and often the unpleasant comments of the crowd [all of which cause a] considerable amount of unnecessary suffering, mental as well as physical' as Sir William Nott-Bower, the commissioner, reported in 1904. He went on to say, 'However if the hand-litter is not available the results to the unfortunate sufferer are even more lamentable.' | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Public Services | Temporal: | 23 Jun 1906 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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