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(v) Non-urgent cases of parturition. In such cases
admission to a maternity bed must previously have
been arranged and a card (issued by the Council to
hospitals, maternity homes, etc.) for such admission
be obtained. This card must be handed to the
ambulance attendant at the time of the removal,
and the husband or female friend must accompany
the patient.
B.—Removal of patients to the Council's General Hospitals.
No charge for the ambulance is made at the
time of removal, but the patient is liable to be assessed
according to his means by the appropriate Assessment
Committee.
C.—Removal of patients to the Council's hospitals for infectious
cases. A medical certificate must be handed to the ambulance
nurse, stating definitely the nature of the disease
which must be one of those admissible to an infectious
disease hospital (see page 123).
2. On Payment.—Ambulance and ambulance omnibuses are
provided by the Council, when not required for the purposes stated
above, on payment of charges as laid down from time to time by
the Council for the conveyance of infectious and non-infectious
patients between private houses, hospitals (other than to the Council's
hospitals, etc., under the provisions of the foregoing section (1)),
nursing homes, and for examinations, consultations and treatment
by specialists or at special establishments.
The conveyance of private persons between addresses both of
which are outside the administrative County of London, cannot be
undertaken except in circumstances of unusual urgency.
A pamphlet issued by the Council on the full facilities afforded
by the London Ambulance Service may be obtained from the
Medical Officer of Health, London Ambulance Service, County
Hall, S.E.1.
Ambulances are also available upon payment from the St. John
Ambulance Brigade, St. John's Gate, E.C.1.
The ambulance service of the Borough is very satisfactory.