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Institutional Provision for Married Mothers,
Illegitimate Infants and Homeless Children
in the District.
Rest homes by the seaside (such as All Saints Church, Margaret
Street, provides), are taken advantage of by those married mothers who
can pay a reasonably small fee. The Guardians, similarly, send away
cases.
Ambulance Facilities.
(a) Infections 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, City
7200, 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-Infectious 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
are also 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
High Road, Lee Woolmore Street, Poplar
Peckham Road
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.