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The powers given to the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board by the
Poor Law Act, 1889 (see Sanitary Legislation), have enabled them to frame improved
Regulations for the Ambulance Service of the Metropolis. These Regulations
as given below have been transmitted to the various Sanitary Authorities
of London.
METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
Ambulance Service.
Removal of Persons Suffering from Infectious Diseases.
1.—Apply on week days between 8 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 pm. and 8 a.m., and on Sundays, Christmas Day, and
Good Friday, to the Ambulance Stations. Eastern Ambulance station, Brooksby's
Walk, Homerton, N.E.; South Eastern Ambulance Station, New Cross Road (near
Old Kent Koad Railway Station), S.E.; Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave
Road, Fulham, S.W.
2.—Removal to the Board's Hospitals—
(а) Only persons suffering from Smallpox, 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 removed.
(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.