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(f) The Ambulance 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,
T. Duncombe Mann,
Dated 26th March, 1900. Clerk to the Board.
N.B.—Penalty—By Section 70 of the "Public Health (London) Act, 1891," it is
enacted that—"It shall not be 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 fine not
"exceeding Ten pounds . . . ."
Power of Femoral to Hospital.—Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
section 66, and the Public Health Act, 1875, section 124, a person suffering from
any dangerous infectious disease who is without "proper lodging or accommodation"
may be removed to a hospital by order of a Justice.
Warwick v. Graham.
In the case of Warwick v. Graham* the words "proper lodgings and accommodation"
received a definite interpretation. This case decided on appeal from
the decision of the Justices of Workington, by a Queen's Bench Divisional Court,
consisting of Mr. Justice Day and Mr. Justice Lawrance.
It appeared that the respondent Graham and his family, which consisted of
seven persons, lived in a four-roomed house. One of his sons, who suffered from
scarlet fever, was kept apart in the parlour on the ground floor, but it was impossible
to isolate him, and it was proved there would be danger of infection to
the other people in the house if he continued to occupy the room. The boy was
properly nursed and fed, and had adequate medical attendance, and, so far as he
himself was concerned, had proper accommodation.
The Workington Corporation applied to the Justices for an order to remove
the boy to the hospital, but the Justices held that the words "without proper
lodging or accommodation" must be construed with regard to the wants of the
infected person, and dismissed the application.
* "The Times," 12th June, 1898.