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The nurse, on removing the patient, will leave at the house a notice stating the
hospital to which the patient is to be taken, together with a copy of the regulations as to
enquiries about, and visiting of, patients.
The diseases admissible to hospital are the following: —
Anthrax. Ophthalmia neonatorum (b).
Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Plague.
Cholera. Polio-encephalitis.
Continued Fever. Polio-myelitis.
Diphtheria. Puerperal fever and Puerperal pyrexia.
Dysentery (a). Relapsing fever.
Encephalitis Lethargica. Scarlet fever (or Scarlatina).
Enteric (or Typhoid or Paratyphoid) fever. Smallpox (or Variola).
Glandular fever. Typhus.
Malaria. Whooping cough (or Pertussis) (a).
Measles (or Morbilli). Zymotic enteritis (or Infantile diarrhoea) (a).
Membranous croup.
Notes.—In special circumstances, cases of chickenpox, german measles aud mumps may
be admitted.
(a) Admitted only on application of medical officers of health of metropolitan boroughs.
(b) Admitted on application of either a medical practitioner or a certified midwife
(medical certificate not essential).
II.—Ambulances Supplied ok Payment.
Ambulances and ambulance omnibuses are also provided by the London County
Council, when not required for the purposes stated above, on payment of charges, as laid down
from time to time by the County Council, for the conveyance of infectious and non-infectious
cases between private houses, hospitals (other than to the County Council's hospitals, etc.,
under the provisions of Section 1), nursing homes and for examinations, consultations and
treatment by specialists or at special establishments.
The conveyance of private persons between addresses both of which are outside the
administrative county of London cannot be undertaken, unless in circumstances of exceptional
urgency.
Arrangements for the reception of an infectious case must be made by or on behalf of
the patient before application for an ambulance is sent to the London County Council, and a
medical certificate as to the nature of the infection must be handed to the ambulance driver
before the patient is removed.
The charges as from and including 1st October, 1932, are as follows:—
(a) Within the Administrative County of London (private cases). 12s. 6d. for the
removal of one patient from one place to another within the administrative County of
London, this charge to include, if necessary, the services of a male attendant. A doctor
and one friend to be allowed to accompany the patient free of charge.
Additional charges to be made as follows:—
(i) 5s. if two patients are conveyed together;
(ii) 2s. 6d. if the friend accompanying the patient wishes to return in the
ambulance during the whole or some part of its journey to the ambulance station;