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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
(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
amount must bo paid to the driver, who will give an official receipt for
the same.
(e) One person only will be allowed to accompany the patient, and such
person may be conveyed back to the place from which the patient was
conveyed. If desired, a nurse will be supplied at an additional charge
2s. 6d. for her services.
(/) The ambulances may be sent outside the Metropolitan District only by
special sanction of the Ambulance Committee, or of the Clerk to the
Board, and in such cases an extra charge will be made of 1s. for every
mile outside the metropolitan area.
4. The drivers of the Board's ambulances are not allowed to loiter on their
journeys or to stop for refreshments on pain of instant dismissal. It is
particularly requested that any breach of this regulation, or any neglect or
incivility on the part of drivers, nurses, or attendants may be immediately
reported.
The servants of the Board are forbidden to accept any gratuities or refreshments.
N.B.—PENALTY.—By Section 70 of the "Public Health (London) Act, 1891," it is
enacted that—"It shall not he lawful for any owner or driver of a public
"conveyance knowingly to convey, or for any other person knowingly to place
"in any public conveyance, a person suffering from any dangerous infectious
" disease, or for a person suffering from any such disease to enter any public
" conveyance, and if he does so he shall be liable to a tine not exceeding TEN
"POUNDS .