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Ambulance Facitities.
(a) Infectious Cases.—Ambulance service is available for infectious
cases at any hour of the day or night upon application to the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, either at the Head Office, by telephone,
or at any of the ambulance stations attached to the hospitals. The one
situate in this Borough is in Old Kent Road, adjoining White Post
Lane.
(b) Non-Infections Cases. The ambulance service of the M.A.B.
is also available for the conveyance of patients who are not suffering
from infectious diseases, application being made in the usual manner.
For such cases a charge of 10s. is made.
The L.C.C. ambulances are available for use in street accidents, as
also are the police ambulances.
The L.C.C. Stations are as follows:—
North End Road, Fulham. Buckner Road, Brixton.
Herbrand Street, Russell Square. St. George's Market, London Rd
Montclare St., Bethnal Green. Southwark, S.E.
High Road, Lee. Woolmore Street, Poplar.
For the conveyance of non infectious patients who are unable to
pay the fees charged by the M.A.B., the Council made arrangement
with the Greenwich Guardians for the use of their ambulance.
The British Red Cross Society also have ambulances, stationed at
St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell. A charge is usually made for their use,
but in necessitous cases no charge is made.
The London Ambulance Service is also available for the conveyance
of expectant mothers for whom urgent necessity arises during the night,
between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m.
Application is made by telephone, and all patients booking at the
Maternity Home are given a card of printed instructions with regard to
these facilities.

In addition to the above, 780 specimens of sputa were examined at
the Council's Tuberculosis Dispensary, of which 133 were " positive "