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Sanitary Authority and shall cause such conveyance to be disinfected,
and if he fails so to do, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five
pounds, and the owner or driver of such conveyance shall be entitled
to recover in a summary manner from the person so conveyed by him,
or from the person causing that person to be so conveyed, a sum sufficient
to cover any loss and expense incurred by him in connection with
such disinfection. It shall be the duty of the Sanitary Authority,
when so requested by the owner or driver of such public conveyance,
to provide for the disinfection of the same, and they may do so free of
charge."
No breach of the law came to my knowledge during
the past year.
New Ambulance Stations.—Adjoining the Brook
Hospital, a complete Ambulance Station has been erected
at a cost of £15,000. It provides stabling for 16 horses,
coach-houses for 20 ambulances, with all requisite accommodation
for a superintendent, 8 nurses, 25 drivers, and other
male servants, 5 laundry-maids, and other female servants.
It may be mentioned that the Managers have acquired land
at Stockwell and at Hampstead on which they propose to
erect ambulance stations in connection with the South-Western
Hospital and the North-Western Hospital, respectively.
Apart from the cost of site, the expenditure involved in the
construction of an ambulance station would appear to be about
fifteen thousand pounds.
Ambulance Arrangements.— Kensington patients are
removed by the staff at the Western Station, which adjoins
he Western Hospital at Seagrave Road, Fulham. Between
a.m. and 8 p.m., on weekdays, cases for removal are reported
at the Managers' central offices, Norfolk House, Norfolk Street,
Strand, W.C., these being in telephonic communication with
the station. During the night, and on Sunday, and on
Christmas Day and Good Friday, application for a patient's
removal is forwarded direct to the ambulance station. The
Managers' telegraphic address is "Asylums Board, London";
their telephone numbers arc 2858 and 2859.