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The L.C.C. Ambulance Service is available for the
conveyance at any hour of the day or night of persons
suffering from accident or sudden illness in the street
or any public place, to hospitals, infirmaries or their
own homes.
This ambulance service is also available for
the transport of women urgently expecting confinement,
who have letters of admission to certain
hospitals, including the London, City of London
Maternity, Jewish Maternity, and Mothers' Hospitals,
between 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. The ambulance can
be summoned by telephone by merely asking for
"AMBULANCE." No charge is made. A doctor,
nurse or female friend must accompany the patient to
hospital.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
This is situated at the City of London Hospital for
Diseases of the Heart and Lungs, Victoria Park, and
its work is fully discussed in the Tuberculosis Section
of this report.
VENEREAL DISEASE.
This is dealt with by the L.C.C. The nearest
treatment centres are at the London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, and the Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland
Road.
PERSONAL CLEANSING STATIONS.
For Adults.
The Council has established a Personal CleansingStation at the Depot, Digby Street.
For School -Children.
Verminous school children are cleansed at the
London County Council Bathing Centre, 5a, Russia
Lane, Bethnal Green. Treatment of children suffering
from scabies is also given at this Centre. During the
year 1927 the total number of baths, cJeansings, etc.,
given at this Centre was 6,079.