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Proposed Ambulance Service (non-Infcctious Diseases) by
the Metropolitan Asyulms Board.
The Council, on April 23rd, 1903, approved of the proposal of
the Ambulance Committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board to
extend the operation of the Board's Ambulance Service, so as to
permit of the ambulance carriages being placed at the disposal of
the public for the conveyance in London of medical cases, surgical
cases, and persons of unsound mind; and resolved to support the
application by the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
to the Local Government Board for the necessary legal authority
for giving effect to such a proposal. London is without any
central public Ambulance Service for the conveyance of the
classes of persons referred to—the pauper cases being, as a rule,
provided for by the respective Boards of Guardians; and it is clear
that economy and efficiency must result from all the ambulance
arrangements of London being vested in a Central Authority with
special experience. Such a Central Authority is the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, whose telephone systems, clerical staff, existing
ambulance plant, horses, attendants, carriages, &c., are already
in existence, and could be used forthwith. Legal authority is
needed before the Metropolitan Asylums Board can act in this
way, their existing powers only having reference to infectious
diseases.
ANALYSIS OF FOOD AND DRUGS,
WATER, Etc.
1. Food and Drugs.
During the year 1903, 1010 samples have been purchased
within the Borough of Lambeth, and submitted to the Public
Analyst for analysis. Of the 1010 samples, 97 (i.e., 9.6 per cent.)
were reported by the Analyst to be adulterated; 66 summonses
(including one for refusing to sell to the Inspector a sample of
milk, one for selling milk from a vehicle on which the name and
address of the owner was not given, two against Farmers on
" warranties ") were issued, with the result that 60 convictions