1912 Olympic Games Official Report Part 2

FRIES, K. A. E., surgeon-lieutenant, Army Medical Corps Reserve;assistant physician at the Garrison Hospital, Stockholm;JOSEFSON, A. R., lecturer on internal diseases at the Carolean Institute;LEVIN, E. I., lecturer in bacteriology at the Carolean Institute;NICKLASSON, G. W., assistant physician at the Stockholm UnionInfirmary;NYSTRÖM, E. G., lecturer in surgery at the Carolean Institute;WAHLSTEDT, A. J. G., surgeon-captain, attached to the Royal FieldTelegraph Corps; assistant at the Public Medical Institution;ÅHMAN, C. G., surgeon-captain, Army Medical Corps Reserve; inpractice at Gothenburg.The Queen Sophia Association placed trained members of the StockholmVolunteer Aid Corps at the disposal of the medical staff at theStadium, for the purpose of rendering assistance there, and there werealso present two Sisters from the Swedish Nursing “Red Cross” Association,for the purpose of giving aid in the case of any of the publicbeing attacked by illness. After application to the proper quarters,the doctors, nurses and members of the Voluntary Medical Aid Columnswere granted permission to wear, while on duty during the OlympicGames, the white arm-band with the Geneva Cross, which is knownthroughout the civilized world.A little room on the ground floor of the Stadium, with direct communicationwith the stands and the principal entrance, was placed at thedisposal of the doctors for the purpose of operations, the dressing ofinjured limbs, etc. There was direct Riks-telephone communicationwith this room. In addition to this, there were two rooms on the secondfloor, with an entrance from the staircase in the north-west tower,which were used as store-rooms for appliances which it was not necessaryalways to have at hand in the doctors’ room. These roomswere also intended to be used as reserve sick-rooms, and were usedon one occasion, when a bed was made there for a boy-scout whohad been attacked in the Stadium with acute gastritis and who wasnot able to return at once to the boy-scout camp in Djurgården Park.The Stille-Werner Co. Ltd. had placed all necessary medical andsurgical appliances, and other articles for the care of the sick, at thedisposal of the doctors on duty at the Stadium competitions. In this way,the operation-room at the Stadium, from the beginning of the Games,was so well furnished that, had there been any necessity, very seriouscases could very well have been treated there. The VolunteerAid Corps, the “Red Cross” and the Army Medical Departmenthad sent blankets and other requisites for two beds, the necessarylinen, bandages, ambulance litters and other appliances.The work of the medical staff at the Stadium during the competitionswas organized in the following way. At the times when thecompetitions were going on, there were always present at least 2doctors, 5 attendants and 2 sick-nurses. Of the doctors, one was alwaysin the arena, as a rule in the vicinity of the place where sucha competition was going on as gave reason to suppose that an acci-53 Fifth Olympiad. 833