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METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD
AMBULANCE SERVICE.
REMOVAL OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
1. APPLY on WEEK DAYS, between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., to the
Chief Office (Ambulance Department):—
Postal Address: Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C.
Telegraphic Address: Asylums Board, London.
Telephone Numbers 2859 and 2859, Gerrard.
N.B.—Applications in the latter part of the day must be dispatched in time to reach
the Office before 8 p.m.
APPLY at NIGHT, between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m., and on SUNDAYS,
Christmas Day, and Good Friday, to the Ambulance Stations :—
Eastern Ambulance Station, Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, N.E.
North-Western Ambulance Station, Lawn Road, Fleet Road, Hampstead
(near Hampstead Heath Railway Station), N.W.
Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham (near West Brompton
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, Shooter's Hill, Kent.
2. REMOVAL TO THE BOARDS HOSPITALS.
(a) ONLY persons suffering from SMALLPOX, 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.
(c) Unless a Medical Certificate of the nature of the disease be handed
to the Ambulance Nurse the patient will not be removed.
(d) Patients should leave all valuables, money, &c., and all outside
clothing at home, should wear body linen only, and be wrapped in
the blankets provided for the purpose.
(e) The Ambulance Nurse will leave, at the house from which the patient
is removed, a notice stating the Hospital to which the patient is to be
taken, and a copy of the regulations as to visiting, &c.
N.B.—In any case of failure to remove on the day of application, in
consequence of pressure on the accommodation in the Board's Hospitals,
the application must be renewed every morning so long as the patient
continues in a fit state for removal and removal is desired. Each application
must contain a statement of the circumstances which render the
removal urgent.
Similar applications must be made in respect of patients taken from
General Hospitals or other places to their homes, owing to there being no
vacant bed available in the Board's Hospitals.
Forms of application for the use of Public Officials may be obtained
upon application to the undersigned.