On emergency medical assistance

I just read THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY by Michael Crichton, and it's a fascinating, fictionalized story of a true life crime that took place in England in 1855, and uses it as a way to have a close look at society of Victorian England, and how technologies such as the railroad were changing the old life, and how that was all for the good, because people did live in great poverty and there was a lot of amazing kinds of crime, and of course now emergency medical assistance. He points out that most thieves were children. Though most people who stole clothes were old women who took little children into alleys and then stripped them. Young women and children stole laundry drying in the sun.