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Total rails answered 1,226
I>istance travelled on calls (miles) 10.761
Average mileage per call (miles) 9.39
Number of occasions on which both ambulances were
out at the same time —
Number of occasions on which a third call was transferred
to other services when both vehicles were out
or one under repair 80
Greatest number of calls answered in any one day 10
The service is free to residents for all types of cases for removal
within a twenty miles' radius, and to and from county hospitals. The
number of calls answered was 130 more than in 1945, involving an
additional mileage of 2,714. Reciprocal arrangements exist with all
neighbouring authorities.
HOSPITALS.
The Cuddington Isolation Hospital Board provides isolation
hospital accommodation for patients in this district at the Board's
hospital in the Borough of Sutton and Cheam. The available accommodation
was further reduced due to closure of more wards owing to
the lack of staff. Fortunately, the number of cases admitted from all
the constitutent districts was 85 less than for the year before. The
admissions to the hospital from Carshalton are shown in Table 9.

Hospital accommodation for smallpox is provided on a county
basis by the County Council at the Clandon Isolation Hospital. No
cases were admitted from this district.
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