30 years ago

MARQUETTE — The average rural response time to a medical emergency is 11 minutes nationwide, compared to an average of four minutes in a metropolitan area. In some cases in the Upper Peninsula, it can take hours for help to arrive at the scene of an accident. But that may change with help from a grant from the Michigan Trauma Coalition, which is helping Marquette General Hospital develop the Upper Peninsula Trauma Network. Pre-hospital and hospital personnel in Marquette, Alger, Baraga, Iron and Delta counties are teaming up to standardize adult and pediatric trauma care. This includes prioritization of patients (triage), transportation, transfer of patients between facilities, and other areas that focus on the treatment of trauma victims.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE — Because 50 percent of Marquette’s water mains are only four inches in diameter and 30 percent are dead-ended, the distribution system here is rated as decidedly substandard by O.M. Henn, manager of the Michigan Inspection Bureau, Detroit. The matter was taken up with the inspection bureau by Commissioner Lee McGinley, head of the city water department, and Mr. Henn’s report and suggestions are contained in a letter he wrote to G.J. Smedman, manager of the bureau’s Upper Peninsula branch office in Marquette. The letter follows, in part: “After careful study of the distribution system, it is our opinion that the following recommended mains would assist materially in increasing the water supply to the high-value residential sections. 1–Install as 12-inch main from the 16-inch main at the corner of Lake Shore Boulevard and Ohio Street, to the 10-inch main at the corner of Fair and Presque Isle Avenues, preferably across Crescent or Park Streets, tying in the distribution system along the streets on which the main is laid. 2– Install an eight-inch main from Baraga Avenue along Fifth, Washington and Sixth Streets, connecting to eight-inch main on Lee Street. 3– Install an eight-inch main on Front Street from Main to Ridge Street.”