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3.—Conveyance to other places—
(a) Persons suffering from any dangerous disorder raav be conveyed by
ambulance to places other than the Board's Hospitals N.B.—
Dangerous infectious disorders include the following:—Small-pox,
Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing, Continued and
Puerperal Fevers, and Measles.
(J) 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
amount must be 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.
(f) 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 the drivers, nurses, or attendants, may be immediately reported to the
undersigned.
The servants of the Board are forbidden to accept any gratuities or refreshments.
By order,
W. F. Jebb,
Dated 16th December. 1889. Clerk to the Board.