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(c) Ambulances belonging to some of the metropolitan hospitals and used for the conveyance
of sick persons to these institutions.
(d) Conveyances belonging to the different Boards of Guardians and used for the
carriage of paupers to workhouses and workhouse infirmaries.
(e) Ambulances belonging to some of the railway companies and used for the conveyance
of sick persons to and from railway stations.
A charge is made for the use of all these carriages except those belonging to the Boards of
Guardians. I believe it is customary to make some small charge for horse hire in connection with
ambulances belonging to the hospitals.
There is need for some arrangement by which poor persons generally can secure the conveyance
of their sick without the use of public vehicles which are ill adapted for the removal of persons
suffering from many maladies, the charges made by owners of private ambulances being prohibitory
for the poor.
(C)—Conveyance of persons who have met with accident or who are picked up in the streets
suffering from epilep.ii/, apoplexy, alcoholism, etc.—The arrangements for the removal of persons
suffering from accidents or who are picked up in the streets are more complex.
It cannot be said that London is entirely without arrangements for dealing with cases of
accidents or of sudden sickness occurring in the streets, but neither can it be said that there exists any
well co-ordinated system, the object of which is the prompt and speedy removal of the person or
persons from the scene of the accident to a hospital in such a manner as to minimise to the utmost
any harm which may result to the sufferer from the removal.
The existing services for dealing with persons suffering from accidents, or who are picked
up in the street, can be most conveniently described in respect of each service. They are the
following—
(1.) The St. John Ambulance Association or the Ambulance Department of the Grand
Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of -Jerusalem in England.
(2.) The Bischoffsheim Ambulance Service of London.
(3.) The Volunteer Medical Staff Corps.
(4.) The Police.
(1.) The St. John Ambulance Association.—This association, which has its headquarters at
St. John'a-gate, Clerkenwell, is chiefly concerned in the training of men and women in first aid and
ambulance work, the object being to provide skilled assistance of this sort in all districts, and especially
in those localities where accidents are of frequent occurrence; it has already trained a large number
of police and fire brigade men, and has placed stretchers at various places, and the police have largely
purchased litters from the association. At the headquarters there is a plentiful supply of litters,
stretchers, bandages, splints, etc., and a permanent staff of trained men. It has further a number of
small stations, in each of which is a stretcher and hamper of stores, thus there are stations at (Report,
1899, St. John Ambulance Association)—
District.
Description.
Hours available.
1. St. John's-gate, Clerkenwell
2. St. Paul's Cathedral
3. Duncan Memorial
lance Station, St. Clement
Danes Church, Strand
4. General Post Office
5. Ludgate-hill railway-
station
6. St. Pancras passenger-
station
7. Bryanston Working Men's
Club, Lisson-grove
8. 44, Claremont-road, High-
gate
9. Borough of Hackney Club,
Haggerston
10. Hyde-park-corner
11. The Winchester-hall hotel
stables, Highgate-hill
12. St. James'-vicarage, Mus-
well-hill
13. 6 and 7, Borough-market,
S.E.
14. South Metropolitan Gas-
Works, Canal - bridge
entrance, Old Kent-road,
S.E.
15. The Children's Home,
Bonner-road, E.
Ambulance wagons, litter*, stretchers, etc.
Ashford litter, stretcher, hamper, etc.
Ashford litter, stretcher, hamper, etc.
Box containing stretcher and first-aid
appliances
11 ,,
Ashford litter, etc.
Stretcher and small hamper
Stretcher and first aid appliances
Ashford litter, stretcher and first-aid appliances
Ashford litter, etc.
Litter and first aid appliances
11 ,,
Stretcher and small hamper
Ashford litter and first aid appliances
Litters, stretchers and first aid dressing*,
antidotes, nourishments, etc.
At all hours.
9 a.m.—6 p.m.; Sundays
2.30—8,30 p.m.
9 a.m.—6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
—11 p.m.
At all hours.
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10 a.m.—12.30 a.m.
At all hours.
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During business hours.
At all hours.
This station is under the
control of the authorities
of the home and is available
at all hours.