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SECTION B.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
i. General Health Services.
(a) Ambulance Facilities.
With the concurrence of the Fire Force Commander
of the area, your ambulance service was transferred
from the St. Paul's Road Depot to the Fire Station,
from where it used to operate prior to the war.
During the year, the ambulance service of the
Borough was reviewed, having regard to the changeover
from a civil defence to a peace-time service. It
was decided that the service should be supplemented
and, in this connection, two ex-civil defence vehicles
were purchased for use as sitting case cars.
Altogether, 5,532 patients were conveyed during the
year, representing over one thousand more than those
conveyed during 1944.
Reciprocal arrangements remain in force with
neighbouring Authorities.
(b) Hospital Facilities.
Oldchurch County Hospital is our main standby
in Barking, but numbers of cases are admitted to the
voluntary hospitals in London, including the London
Hospital and King George Hospital.
The waste of time in the interchange of medical
opinions between your officers and the medical men
in some of these hospitals still continues.