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London County Council 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE.
The following tables show, in the case of the accident section, the work carried out during
the year ended 31st March in respect of the years 1930-31 and 1931-32, and during the year
ended 31st December in respect of the years 1932, 1933 and 1934. In the case of the
general section the year ends on 31st December.
A—Accident Section.
Table I—
| Station. | 1930-31. | Number of calls. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-32. | 1932. | 1933. | 1934. | ||
| Blooms bury | 5,915 | 5,542 | 5,001 | 5,121 | 5,317 |
| Elephant and Castle | 5,311 | 4,738 | 4,403 | 4,614 | 4,896 |
| †Fulham and Western | 3,533 | 3,708 | 3,322 | 2.994 | 3,082 |
| Shoreditch | 3,282 | 3 154 | 2.958 | 3,116 | 3,111 |
| Lee | 2,400 | 2.486 | 2,643 | 2,763 | 3,048 |
| ||Brixton | 2,929 | 1,975 | — | — | — |
| ||South-Western (opened 13.10.30) | 633‡ | 1,836 ‡ | 2,923 | 3,149 | 3,249 |
| Poplar | 2,200 | 2,045 | 1,991 | 1,959 | 2,183 |
| Highbury | 3,060 | 3,086 | 3,000 | 2,896 | 3,063 |
| Paddington | 3,436 | 3.416 | 3,293 | 3,120 | 3,274 |
| Battersea | 2,909 | 2,675 | 2,548 | 2,628 | 2,864 |
| Woolwich | 1,572 | 1,522 | 1,513 | 1,516 | 1.665 |
| Hackney | 2,167 | 2,129 | 1,960 | 2,179 | 2,367 |
| Westminster | 2,472 | 2,139 | 1,751 | 1,828 | 1,837 |
| Old Kent-road | 1,916 | 1,922 | 1.918 | 2,002 | 2,116 |
| ||Streatham | — | 254 | 917 | 929 | 1,098 |
| *North Kensington | — | — | 427 | 1,466 | 1,558 |
| 11§ | 45 § | 70 § | 104 § | 116§ | |
| Total | 43,746 | 42,672 | 40,638 | 42,384 | 44,844 |
* North Kensington station was placed in commission on 1st September, 1932.
† Fulham station closed 19th January, 1931, and ambulance transferred to Western station.
‡ The ambulance at this station was, up to 17th December, 1931, used for removals to other areas.
§ These figures include cases removed by ambulances when passing scene of accident.
|| Streatham station was placed in commission on 17th December, 1931, when Brixton station was
closed and the South-Western station became a single station instead of a subsidiary station.