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(3) Illness, infectious disease, etc.—
Normally the hospital to which the patient
is to be admitted will summon the ambulance, if one is necessary, by telephoning WATerloo 3311.
This applies also to patients being discharged from hospiial or attending there as
out-patients.
Emergency Bed Service.
(king Edward's Hospital Fund for London).
The Emergency Bed Service was founded in 1938 to assist general practitioners in
finding beds for acute emergency cases. Since the 5th July, 1948, the Service, working
in close co-operation with the Ambulance Service, has acted as agent for the four Metropolitan Regional Hospital Boards for the admission of all types of cases except mental
and tuberculous. Since the 3rd October, 1939, the Central Office of the Emergency Bed
Service at Old Jewry (MONarch 3000) has dealt with cases from the Central London
area only, from 8.30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily (including Sundays), branch offices having been
cstablished to deal with the outer part of Greater London. At night a full service is
available at the Central Office for the whole of Greater London.