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St Pancras 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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School Treatment Centres in St. Pancras.
(By appointment only. Application in first instance to Divisional Treatment Organiser.)
Vision Highgate New Town Clinic, Chester Road, N.19.
St. Pancras Clinic, 26, Prince of Wales Road, N.W.5.
Somers Town Treatment Centre, Chalton Street, N.W.I.
Dental Highgate New Town Clinic.
St. Pancras Clinic.
Somers Town Treatment Centre.
Nutrition Highgate New Town Clinic.
Somers Town Treatment Centre.
Rheumatism Hampstead General Hospital, Bayham Street, N.W.I.
Ears Royal National Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital, Gray's
Inn Road, W.C.I.
Tonsils and Adenoids Whittington Hospital, Highgate Wing, Dartmouth Park
Hill, N.W.5.
*Minor Ailments Highgate New Town Clinic.
St Pancras Clinic.
Somers Town Treatment Centre.
*Children can attend for treatment any time during working hours and are seen
by the doctor, if necessary, on his next attendance.
Ambulance Facilities.
The London County Council, as local health authority, is responsible under Section 27
of the National Health Service Act, 1946, for the provision of ambulance facilities within
the administrative county of London.
The Headquarters of the London Ambulance Service are at The County Hall, Westminster
Bridge, S.E.I. The Home Service Ambulance Department (Order of St. John of Jerusalem
and British Red Cross Society) and the Hospital Car Service act as agents of the County Council
in supplying some of the ambulance and car transport provided under the Act.
Ambulances may be summoned as follows:—
(1) Accidents ... ... ... ... ... ...
Sudden illness in the streets, public places or
places of employment. (Note.—For sudden
illness in the home a doctor, not an ambulance,
should be summoned)
Dial "999" (or follow the
instructions given on the
telephone instrument) and
ask for "AMBULANCE."
(2) Maternity patients (who have booked a bed in a
hospital or maternity home)
Very urgent illness in the home (provided a
medical practitioner certifies that the case is
one of life or death and arrangements have been
made with a hospital for the patient's admission)
Telephone—
WATerloo 6000
CENtral 6301
REGent 4000
RELiance 3622 or
NEW Cross 2645
(3) Illness, infectious disease, etc.—Removal to
hospitals, etc. For full particulars telephone
or write to the Officer-in-Charge, London
Ambulance Service, The County Hall, S.E.I,
WATerloo 3311.