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32 Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Metropolitan Ambulance Service.
Stations within or near the parish, containing litters and stretchers, and provided
by the Street Ambulance Branch of the Hospitals Association, for the transfer of sick
and injured persons (infectious cases excepted) are situated as follows :—
Marshalsea Road, at the junction of Mint Street.
Fire Brigade Head Quarters, Southwark Bridge Road.
Fire Brigade Station, Waterloo Road.
St. Thomas's Hospital.
Guy's Hospital, Southwark.
All metropolitan patients suffering from small-pox, fevers, and diphtheria, may,
on application, be conveyed to and fro, and treated free, within the isolaton hospitals
of the Asylum Board.
The Ambulance Station nearest the parish is the South-Eastern one, situate at
the New Cross Road (near Old Kent Road Railway Station), S.E.
Telephonic communication can be made from the Health Department (within
office hours), to the chief office of the Asylums Board, and within a few minutes an
ambulance will be on its way, for the conveyance of the patient to the South-Eastern
Hospital (adjoining the South-Eastern Ambulance Station), if sufferiug from fever or
diphtheria; or to the South Wharf, at Rotherhithe, if it be a case of small-pox. In the
latter case, the patient will embark in one of the ambulance steamers for the hospital
ships at Long Reach.
The Convalescent Hospitals, belonging to the Asylums Board, are two in number.
That for fevers and diphtheria is situated at Winchmore Hill, in the North-East of
London; that for small-pox at Gore Farm, Darenth, distant about four miles from
the hospital ships.
Patients in a position to bear the expense of their support, and suffering from
fevers and diphtheria, or small-pox, can be accommodated at the London Fever
Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington, and at the Highgate Small pox Hospital,
respectively.
Report on Suggested Incinerator.
I have on more than one occasion pointed out to your Sanitary Authority the
fact that Section 59 of the Public Health (London) Act requires "the provision of proper
premises, with all necessary apparatus for the destruction of infected articles," such
as bedding and clothing.
In this poor parish foul and infected articles have to be burnt, either in the
furnace of the new steam disinfector, or, in the case of bedding, in a heap on the
ground at the Vestry's Stone Yard
This process is at least an unsatisfactory one, and in the event of an outbreak—
say of small-pox or cholera—infected goods would assuredly accumulate, and the
disease be probably spread before a safe method of disposal could be arranged.
I, therefore, advise your Vestry, without further delay, to tender for a properly
contracted Incinerator, which might usefully be erected near the disinfector in the
parish Stone Yard.
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Since presenting the above report, it will be within the memory of your Vestry
that a contract has been entered into with the authorities of Guy's Hospital for the
use of their Incinerator. £20 per annum is the amount stipulated as the price to
be paid for burning disinfected articles. During the past year 13 such lots of bedding
have been destroyed in the Guy's Incinerator.