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St Pancras 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Ambulance Service.— Below are set out the new Regulations of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, prescribing the method of obtaining the removal of a patient to
hospital, so that any person may know when, where, and how to make application for
the removal of an infectious patient. It is not generally known that any person
whether lay or medical, may make application by telephone, telegram, or letter in
the form as stated, and an infectious case will be removed if provided with the.
medical certificate as required.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
Ambulance Service.
| 1.—Application to be made:— In day time (9 a.m. to 8 p.m.) | To the Chief Office (Ambulance Department) ' | Postal Address : Victoria Embankment (corner of Carmelite Street), E.C. Telegraphic Address : Asylums Board, London. Telephone Numbers 1601 and 1602, Holborn. |
| At night time (8 p.m. to 9 a.m.) | To the Ambulance Stations: | Eastern Ambulance Station, Brookby's Walk, Homerton, N.E. North-Western Ambulance Station, Lawn Road, Fleet Road, Hamp-stead (near Hampstead Heath Railway Station), N.W. Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham (near West Bromp-ton Railway Station), S.W. South- Western Ambulance Station, Landor Road, Stockwell (near Clapham Road Railway Station), S.W. South-Eastern Ambulance Station, New Cross Road (near Old Kent Road Railway Station), S.E. Brook Ambulance Station, Shooters Hill, Kent. |
2.—Removal to the Board's Hospitals.
(a) Only persons suffering from Small-pox, Fevers, or Diphtheria, are admitted
into the Board's Hospitals.
(b) Every application must state the name, age, and full address of the patient,
from what disease suffering, and in cases of fever the particular kind of
fever ; and also the name of the person making the application.