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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1895.
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Regulations as to the Removal of Persons suffering
from Infectious Diseases, & c.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has published the following set of Regulations
as to the removal of persons suffering from infectious diseases:—
1. Apply on week days between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. to the chief offices. Postal
address: Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. Telegraphic
address: Asylums Board, London. Telephone number: 2587. (N.B.—
Applications in the latter part of the day must be dispatched in time to reach
the offices before 8 p.m.). At night, between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m., and on
Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday, to the Ambulance Stations;
Eastern Ambulance Station, Brooksby's "Walk, Homerton, N.E.; SouthEastern
Ambulance Station, New Cross-road (near Old Kent-road Railway
Station) S.E.; Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave-road, Fulham, S.W.
2. Removal to the Board's Hospitals:—
(a) Only persons suffering from small-pox, fevers, or diphtheria are admitted
into the Board's Hospitals.
(b) Every application must state the name, age, and full address of the
patient, from what disease suffering, and, in cases of fever, the
particular kind of fever; and also the name of the person making the
application.
(c) Unless a medical certificate be handed to the ambulance nurse, the
patient will not be moved.
(d) Patients should leave all valuables, money, &c., and all outside clothing
at home; should wear body linen only, and be wrapped in the blankets
provided for the purpose.
(e) The ambulance nurse will leave at the house from which the patient is
removed a notice stating the hospital to which the patient is to be
taken, and a copy of the regulations as to visiting, &c.
3. Conveyance to other places:—
(a) Persons suffering from any dangerous infectious disease may be conveyed
by ambulance to places other than the Board's Hospitals.
N.B.—Dangerous infectious diseases include the following: Smallpox,
cholera, diphtheria, membraneous croup, erysipelas, scarlatina or
scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued, and
puerperal fevers, and measles.
(b) Every application for an ambulance must state:—
(i.) Name, sex, and age of patient.
(ii.) Description of disease, and in the case of fever, the particular
kind of fever.
(iii.) Full address from which the patient is to be conveyed.
(iv.) Full address to which the patient is to be conveyed.
(c) The patient must be provided with a medical certificate of the nature of
the disease, to be handed to the driver of the ambulance.
(d) The charge for the hire of the ambulance, including (when the patient is
over ten years of age) the services of a male attendant, is 5s. This