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* Children can attend for treatment any time during working hours and are seen
by the doctor on his next attendance.
Ambulance Facilities.
The London County Council, as local health authority, is responsible under Section 27
of the National Health Service Act, 1946, for the provision of ambulance facilities within
the administrative county of London.
The Home Service Ambulance Department (Order of St. John of Jerusalem and British
Red Cross Society) and the Hospital Car Service act as agents of the County Council in supplying
some of the ambulance and car transport provided under the Act. The Headquarters of
the London Ambulance Service are at The County Hall, Westminster Bridge, S.E.1.
Ambulances may be summoned as follows:—
(1) Accidents
Sudden illness in the streets, public places or
places of employment. (Note.—For sudden
illness in the home a doctor, not an ambulance,
should be summoned
Dial "999" (or follow the
instructions given on the
telephone instrument) and
ask for "AMBULANCE."
(2) Maternity patients (who have booked a bed in a
hospital or maternity home)
Very urgent illness in the home (provided a
medical practitioner certifies that the case is
one of life or death and arrangements have been
made with a hospital for the patient's admission)
Telephone—
WATerloo 6000
CENtral 6301
REGent 4000
RELiance 3622 or
NEW Cross 2645
(3) Illness, infectious disease, etc.—Removal to
hospitals, etc. For full particulars telephone
or write to the Officer-in-Charge, London
Ambulance Service, The County Hall, S.E.1.
WATerloo 3311.