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Ambulance Service—Continued.
3. CONVEYANCE TO OTHER PLACES.
(a) PERSONS suffering from ANY DANGEROUS INFECTIOUS
DISEASE* may be CONVEYED by Ambulance to PLACES
OTHER THAN THE BOARD'S HOSPITALS.
(b) Every application for an Ambulance must state :—
(i.) Name, sex, and age of patient.
(ii.) Description of disease, and, in the case of fever, the
particular kind of fever.
(iii.) Full address from which the patient is to be conveyed.
(iv.) Full address to which the patient is to be conveyed.
(Arrangements for the reception of the patient must be made before
application for the Ambulance.)
(c) The patient must be provided with a Medical Certificate of the nature
of the disease, to be handed to the Driver of the Ambulance.
(d) The charge for the hire of the Ambulance, including (when the
patient is over ten years of age) the services of a male attendant, is
5s. This amount must be paid to the Driver, who will give an
official receipt for the same.
(e) One person only will be allowed to accompany the patient, and such
person may be conveyed back to the place from which the patient
was conveyed. If desired, a Nurse will be supplied at an additional
charge of 2s. 6d. for her services.
(f) The Ambulances may be sent outside the Metropolitan district only
by special sanction of the Ambulance Committee or of the Clerk to
the Board, and in such cases an extra charge will be made of 1s. for
every mile outside the Metropolitan area.
4. The Drivers of the Board's Ambulances are not allowed to loiter on their
journeys or to stop for refreshments on pain of instant dismissal. It is
particularly requested that any breach of this regulation, or any neglect or
incivility on the part of the Drivers, Nurses, or Attendants may be immediately
reported to the undersigned.
The Servants of the Board are forbidden to accept any gratuities or refreshments.
*N.B.—Dangerous Infectious Diseases include the following:—Smallpox, Cholera,
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Typhus,
Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal Fevers. The Ambulance Committee
have also authorised the use of their Ambulances for Measles and Chickenpox.
By Order, T. DUNCOMBE MANN,
Dated 2nd May, 1898. Clerk to the Board.
N.B.—PENALTY.—By Section 70 of the " Public Health (London) Act, 1891," it is
enacted that—"It shall not be lawful for any owner or driver of a public
"conveyance knowingly to convey, or for any other person knowingly to place in
"any public conveyance, a person suffering from any dangerous infectious
"disease, or for a person suffering from any such disease to enter any public
"conveyance, and if he does so he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
"TEN POUNDS"