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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 1938

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

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46
Notable
accidents
during the
year
The accident section ambulances were called to the following railway accidents
in which a number of persons were injured:—
(1) Waterloo Station (Underground Railway), 10th March, 1938. Eleven
persons were removed to hospital and twenty others were treated for minor
injuries and shock.
(2) Charing Cross Station (District Railway), 17th May, 1938. Fifty-nine
persons were conveyed to hospital; of these, six cases proved fatal.
Owing to the adverse weather conditions prevailing during the week ended
24th December, 1938, the accident section of the London Ambulance Service dealt
with 1,595 calls, the highest number ever dealt with by the service in one week
(including the week of Their Majesties' coronation, 1,566 calls). Also 3,814 patients
were removed to hospitals by the general section.