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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: The stations at present provided are the following—

The stations at present provided are the following—

Postal district.Postal district.
E.C.Carter's, 47, Holborn-viaduct.S.E.Fire brigade station, Evelyn-street, Dept-ford.
,,St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
,,Royal Exchange.11Fire brigade station, Crystal palace-parade. Strand, St. Clement Danes.
,,Bishopsgate-street fire brigade station.W.C.
,,Tabernacle-square, Old-street.11King's College Hospital, Lincoln's-inn.
W.C.University College Hospital.N.North-Eastern Hospital for Children, Hackney-road.
,,Theobald's-road fire brigade station.
,,Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road.11Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway-road.
E.Bethnal-green, Green-street fire brigade station.
11Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland-road.
,,Vine House, Mile-end-roadN.W.Camden-town fire brigade station, King's-road, N.W.
,,London Hospital, Whitechapel.
,,New Dundse-wharf, 82, Wapping High-street.,,Albert-road cab rank, Regent's-park.
,,Cab rank, Midland-road.
,,East London Hospital for Children, Glamis-road, Shadwell.W.Faraday-road fire brigade station, Kensington.
,,York-street, Ratcliff, E.,,Royal-crescent cab rank, Notting-hill.
,,Junction of East and West India Dock roads.,,Archer-street cab-rank, Notting-hill.
,,Pickering-place cab-rank, Paddington.
,,All Saints' Church, Poplar.,,St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
,,Poplar Hospital for Accidents, East India Dock-road.,,Maida-vale cab rank, Paddington.
,,Langham-place cab rank, Paddington.
S.E.St. Thomas' Hospital.,,Middlesex Hospital.
,,Fire brigade station, Waterloo-road.,,Fire brigade station, Great Marlborough-street.
,,Cab rank, Blackfriars-road.
,,St. George's-road, Southwark (near Elephant and Castle).S.W.Cab rank, St. James'-square.
,,Cab rank, Eccleston-bridge.
,,Marshalsea-road, Borough.,,Sloane-square.
,,Guy's Hospital.,,Queen's-gate.
,,Fire brigade station, Camberwell.,,Town-hall, King's-road, Chelsea.
,,Rye-lane, Peckham.,,Vauxhall-cross.

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In the annual report for 1899 as to the work of this service the following statement is made—
" Prior to the establishment of the Hospitals Association Street Ambulance Service at the end of 1889,
" cabs were almost exclusively employed in the transport of cases of street accident, with the well"
known result—frequent conversion of slight casualties into grave injuries. Daring the first three
" years of the existence of the service our ambulances superseded the cab as a means of transport for
" cases of accident in one out of every three cases. In round figures 3,400 cases were removed on our
"conveyances in these three years, an annual average of 1,133. Your Committee were able to
" announce last year that no fewer than 2,209 were dealt with, and this year they are happy to
" announce a still further increase, the number removed during 1899 being 2,319."

Table: " The following table shows the number oi accidents removed by the ambulances in the years " 1891-1899—

" The following table shows the number oi accidents removed by the ambulances in the years " 1891-1899—

1891-2.1892-3.1893-4.1894-5.1895-6.1896-7.1897-8.1898-9.1899-1900.
Fire brigade stations96113132109170201197221237
Hospitals222479582928576460629601633
Thoroughfare stations6606706045008107751,0511,1401,239
Other stations—540115115248236247210
9781,2671,3581,6521,7911,6842,1132,2092,319

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" Once again the Committee have to express their regret that these figures are incomplete and
" that as thoroughfare stations become, by reason of their greater usefulness, more numerous, this
" incompleteness will probably increase. In the case of fire brigade stations and hospitals a record is
" kept of the use of the ambulance, but at thoroughfare stations this is impossible, except in the
" instances where the station is near a cabmen's shelter and the shelter attendant is sufficiently
" interested to keep a record."
This service is one for providing stations throughout the metropolis fitted up with hand
ambulance appliances for use in cases of emergency by the police or the public—one of the functions
also undertaken by the St. John Ambulance Association.
(3) The volunteer medical staff corps—This corps is primarily a military organisation, but on
special occasions such as public processions it has worked with the police. This is a duty also shared
by the St. John Ambulance Association. Apart from giving assistance on occasions such as these the
volunteer medical staff corps has no concern with the removal of accidents to hospitals at ordinary
times.