It’s October 1892 in Brisbane. Imagine you are an ambulance bearer in a serge-cloth tunic and long trousers walking whilst carrying a 60kg patient on a stretcher over the 5kms from Taringa to the Royal Brisbane
Hospital. Feeling a bit warm? Patient getting heavy? Is the patient glad that someone is looking after him – or scared stiff they will drop him? #ThrowbackThursday takes us back to the beginnings of Queensland Ambulance when the primary equipment for patient transport was a canvas stretcher and how an important change to this situation was the product of necessity.The following text is an extract from the first-hand record of events of the new City Ambulance Transport Brigade (CATB)… More
