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AMBULANCE SERVICE.
In connection with the subject of infectious
disease it may be useful information if I call
attention to the Ambulance Service of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Of this service it would be impossible to
exaggerate the importance to both Medical
Officers of Health and to the public generally,
and I should like to bear testimony here to the
promptitude and thoroughness with which it
is carried out.
I need not dwell upon the advantage
derived from the immediate removal from the
homes of the poorer classes in contagious
cases. In the tenement houses we have to
deal with where isolation is impossible, the
separation of the sick from the sound affords
the only security against the spread of disease,
adds much to the comfort of the remaining
occupants, and allows the Sanitary Officers
to institute precautionary and preventive
measures much sooner than would be possible