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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Ambulance Service.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board provide a free ambulance
service for the removal of cases of infectious disease, and for other
cases on payment. The London County Council provide a free
accident service, and has now arranged with the London Ambulance
Service, the St. John's Ambulance Association and the
British Red Cross Society for the conveyance of parturient women
to maternity hospitals at any hour of the day or night.
Removal and Collection of House Refuse.
The method of removal and collection of refuse in the
Borough is a combined system of mechanical and horse traction
carried out by contract. The collecting wagons are hauled from
house to house by horses, and when full are drawn up mechanically
on to a motor carrier which takes the refuse to the place of disposal.
An empty wagon is left to replace the full one.
The Contractor has the use of the Council's Destructor, and
about two-thirds of the refuse is dealt with at the Destructor
where it is sorted and sifted. Part of the sifted refuse is removed
and part is burnt in the Destructor furnace. The remaining third
of the house refuse is taken down the Thames by barge from two
riverside wharves in the Borough, and disposed of below Barking.