Stretcher
White Elephant Museum Inc.
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| Nom de l'objet : | Stretcher |
| Classification de l'objet : | man-made artifact |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | distribution & transportation artifact |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | land transportation -- human-powered |
| Discipline : | history of religion history medicine |
| Matériaux : | fibre wood metal |
| Technique de fabrication : | carved sewn planed bolted cut cast |
| Numéro de catalogue : | 1996.BH.11 |
| Pays d'origine : | Canada ? Dominion of Newfoundland ? |
| Continent d'origine : | North America ? |
| Province d'utilisation : | pre-confederation Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Pays d'utilisation : | Canada Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Culture : | pre-confederation Newfoundland ? Canadian ? |
| Secteur géo-culturel : | North American ? |
| Contexte culturel : | transporting injured or ill patients |
| Date de début de production : | c 1900 |
| Date de fin de production : | c 1950 |
| Période : | first half of 20th century |
| Description : | The stretcher is made of green-grey canvas stretched between two wooden poles. The wooden poles are rounded on the ends to create handles. The stretcher rests on four u-shaped metal legs. There are two legs attached to each wooden pole. Legs on opposite sides of the stretcher (on opposite poles) are connected by a metal bar. Both bars are made of two pieces of roughly equal lengths bolted together. These bars fold up at the bolt into a V-shape for storage, and snap into a horizontal position when the stretcher is opened. |
| Commentaires : | Medical help was far from Makkovik in the early twentieth century. Missionaries and the Grenfell Mission provided the area's only medical services, with small hospitals in a couple of communities, and a medical boat travelling the coast. Missionaries brought medical supplies with them from Europe and often performed rudimentary, and sometimes emergency, medical work. In the mid-twentieth century, the missionaries would try to diagnose the problem, and would receive advice via radio telephone from the doctor in Northwest River regarding the best approach for dealing with the problem. The missionaries had a dispensary building to aid them with this work; it is now home to the White Elephant Museum. Starting in 1949 an air ambulance service provided a means of transferring patients from isolated areas of Labrador to larger medical centres, and in 1961 a nursing station was built in Makkovik. This stretcher was salvaged by the museum when the Brown House (the mission work station) was torn down. |
| Fonctions : | This stretcher was used to transport patients, probably to an awaiting airplane that would take them to a hospital in a larger centre. |
| Hauteur : | 244 |
| Longueur : | 50 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Nombre d'objets : | 1 |
| Nombre de parties composantes : | 1 |
| Nom des parties composantes : | stretcher |
| Établissement : | White Elephant Museum Inc. |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Makkovik |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland and Labrador |
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