Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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Ambulance omnibuses are equipped for recumbent
or sitting cases as required.
In cases of private hire the amounts fixed in
advance must be paid to the driver before the patient
enters the ambulance. The driver will give an official
receipt for all sums received.
Only light hand luggage can be carried in the
vehicles.
Infants in arms are not considered as additional
passengers.
Associations, authorities and others requiring repeated
services may enter into special arrangements
with the Council as regards payment.
Ambulance Stations.
The following are the nearest stations which are
open always:—
Name of Station. Address.
Bloomsbury 15, Herbrand Street, Tavistock
Square, W.C.1.
Eastern Brooksby Walk, E.9.
Hackney Paragon Road, Mare Street, City 7200.
Hackney, E.9.
Highbury Calabria Road, Highbury, N.5.
Poplar 7, Woolmore Street, E.14.
Shoreditch 5, Montclare Street, E.1. ,
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 Whitechapel Clinic, Turner
Street, adjoining the London Hospital, Whitechapel
Road, and the Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road.