Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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(d) Patients should leave all valuables,
money, &c., and all outside clothing
at home, should wear body linen
only, and be wrapped in the blankets
provided for the purpose.
(e) The Ambulance Nurse will leave, at
the house from which the patient
is removed, a notice stating the
Hospital to which the patient is to
be taken, and a copy of the regulations
as to visiting, &c.
3. Conveyance to other Places.
(a) Persons suffering from any Dangerous
Infectious Disease may be conveyed
by Ambulance to places other than
the Board's Hospitals.
N.B,—Dangerous Infectious Diseases
include the following:—Small-pox,
Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous
Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid,
Enteric, Relapsing, Continued and
Puerperal Fevers, and Measles.