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anaesthetists employed in connection with thoracic surgery at the outlying medical
tuberculosis hospitals. Double fees have been paid to the latter in view of the
time involved in travelling.
Remuneration at the rate of £95 a year for one session a week and conditions
of appointment for part-time refractionists, and conditions of appointment for fulltime
radiologists for whom remuneration had already been prescribed, have been
approved.
During the year, the positions of consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Queen
Mary's hospital for children, Carshalton, and consulting ophthalmic surgeon to
White Oak and St. Margaret's hospitals fell vacant owing to the lamented deaths
of the holders of these offices, and the opportunity has been taken of revising the
salaries and conditions of appointment and service attached to these positions in
order to bring them into line with the rates, etc., laid down under the Council's
new scheme.
The salaries, etc., attached to the positions are as follows:—
Consulting orthopaedic surgeon, Queen At the rate of £150 a year in respect of two
Mary's hospital for children, Car- sessions' work a fortnight, with additional
shalton. payment for emergency visits.
Consulting ophthalmic surgeon—
(i) White Oak hospital £300 a year in respect of one visit a week and as
required, or if already employed as a part-time
consultant or specialist in the hospitals service,
£250 a year.
(ii) St. Margaret's hospital £125 a year in respect of one visit a week and as
required, or if already employed as a part-time
consultant or specialist in the hospitals service,
£75 a year.
Consequent on the taking over from the United Services Fund of Heatherwood
hospital on 1st October, 1934, the Council reviewed the arrangements in existence
for consultant and specialist services at that hospital. The basis of remuneration
paid to consultants and specialists at that hospital was different from that in the
Council's hospitals; but, as the arrangements had worked well in the past, and
in order to enable some experience of the working of the hospital to be gained and
to obviate any more disturbance at the hospital than was unavoidably necessary,
no alterations have been made for the time being.
Custody of valuables belonging to staff.
With a view to preventing, as far as possible, the theft of property belonging
to members of the resident staff in the hospitals and the institutions, the Council
decided that all resident officers should be provided with the following minimum
standard of safe custody for their valuables:—(a) a lock on the door of the bedroom;
(b) a lock on a wardrobe; and (c) a lock on a drawer in an article of
furniture.
The necessary steps were taken to bring the equipment at the various establishments
up to this standard, and arrangements were made for a notice to be exhibited
pointing out that, as each officer was provided with the necessary facilities in which
to lock up his or her valuables, the Council would not accept any liability for the
loss of, or damage to, such property.
It was also decided that locks fitted to bedroom doors should be of the "slam"
type.
London Ambulance Service.
Within the administrative county of London the Council provides ambulances,
free of cost, for the conveyance to (a) hospitals or private residences (except in the
City of London*) of:—
(i) Persons meeting with accidents or suffering from sudden illnesses in
the streets, public places, places of employment, etc.;
(ii) Persons meeting with accidents in their homes;
(iii) Persons suffering from illnesses in their homes if a medical practitioner
certifies that the case is one of life or death, and provided that arrangements
have been made for the reception of the patient in a hospital;
*The Corporation of the City of London maintains its own ambulance service for dealing with
cases of accident and illness occurring in the streets within the City area.