triage in medical sense (1918)

[Sam Clements]

Here's earlier using N'archive.

_Fort Wayne(IN) Sentinel_  28 September 1917,  pg 4

(Reprinted from the Rensselaer(IN) Republican.  ed.  A letter home from a
Mr. Albert Thompson serving as an ambulance driver in France).

"We were called to one of the triage hospitals, which are the hospitals to
which the wounded are taken from the post de cours(first line hospital,
preparatory to being picked up by the ambulance drivers), which are very
close to the trenches."

Sam Clements



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Wilton" <dave at WILTON.NET>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 11:42 AM
Subject: triage in medical sense (1918)


> OED2 has 1930 (in reference to WWI):
>
> From the Washington Post of 14 June 1918:
> Some "Triage" Hospitals.
> Back of the nontransportable hospital near Montdidier that I described
> yesterday we have established, in that sector a considerable number of
> field
> hospitals[.] Some of these are "triage["] hospitals that is hospitals for
> meeting first aid emergencies, but equipped to do surgical work if
> necessary.
> Essentially these hospitals are for the classification and distribution of
> wounded to the rear according to the character of the injuries.
>
> From the Janesville Daily Gazette (Wisconsin) of 15 July 1918:
> It takes us about four hours to make a round trip from the triage to the
> hospital.
>
> From the <i>New York Times</i>, 22 September 1918:
> The men came in from the field and went first to the main triage, where
> Les
> Dames Anglaisé gave them coffee and lemonade.
>
> --Dave Wilton
>  dave at wilton.net
>
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