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Disinfecting Station, Watson Street.
Chief Disinfector—T. Lyons
Disinfectors—F. Smith and F. Peache
Driver—J. Lloyd
Laboratory Facilities.
See " Food" and "Infectious Diseases."
London Ambulance Service.
Within the administrative county of London the London County
Council provides ambulances, free of cost, for the conveyance to
(a) Hospitals or private residences (except in the City of
London") of
Persons meeting with accidents or suffering from sudden
illnesses in the streets, public places, places of employment, etc.
(b) Hospitals of
(i) Persons meeting with accidents in their homes;
(ii) Persons suffering from illnesses in their homes if a
medical practitioner certifies that the case is one of life or
death, and provided that arrangements have been made for the
reception of the patient in a hospital;
(iii) Parturient women, if the case is one of urgency,
whether from the home, place of business or elsewhere, on the
application of a qualified medical practitioner or certified
midwife, provided that either a doctor or midwife accompanies
the case; and
(iv) Non-urgent cases of parturition provided that admission
to a maternity bed has previously been arranged and a
card (issued by the Council to hospitals, municipal maternity
homes, etc.) for such admission obtained;
*The Corporation of the City of London maintains its own ambulance service
for dealing with cases of accident and illness occurring in the streets within the
City area.