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(c) Unless a Medical Certificate of the nature of the disease 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.
N.B.—In any case of failure to remove on the day of application, in
consequence of pressure on the accommodation in the Board's Hospitals,
the application must be renewed every morning so long as the patient
continues in a fit state for removal and removal is desired. Each
application must contain a statement of the circumstances which render
the removal urgent.
Similar applications must be made in respect of patients taken from
General Hospitals or other places to their homes, owing to there being
no vacant bed available in the Board's Hospitals.
Forms of application for the use of Public Officials may be obtained
upon application to the undersigned.
3.—Conveyance to other places.
(а) Persons suffering from any dangerous infectious disease* may be conveyed
by Ambulance to places other than the Board's Hospitals.
(б) 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. ("Arrangements
for the reception of the patient must be made before application
for the Ambulance.)
(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. The
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. If desired, a Nurse will be supplied at an additional charge
of 2s. 6d. for her services.
* Dangerous Infectious Diseases include the following: Small-pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous
Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing, Continued, and
Puerperal Fevers. The Ambulance Committee have also authorised the use of their Ambulance for Measles
and Chicken-pox.