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AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
Infectious Disease. The Council have continued to
hire an Ambulance, from a local jobmaster, for the purpose
of removing cases of Infectious Disease. The
vehicle is used exclusively for that purpose. The cost
for the hire of the same during the year under review,
was approximately £30.
Non Infectious Cases. The arrangements for removing
accident cases or cases of sickness of an urgent
character, have been continued with the Dartford Guardians
and Sidcup- Urban District Council. Each of
these bodies possess a Motor Ambulance and I have
experienced no difficulty in obtaining the use of either
when occasion has arisen. The cost to the Council for
this service for the year was approximately £26.8s. 3d.
The Council have given consideration to the question
as to the advisability of purchasing a Motor Ambulance,
but for the time have resolved to continue the arrangements
as stated.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.
No Maternity and Child Welfare Centre has yet
been established within the Area
The Kent County Council provide the following services:—
Dental Clinics. (School Children).
Tuberculosis Dispensaries. At Overy Street,
Dartford and Pier Road, Erith.
Venereal Clinics, at King Edward's Hospital,
Dartford.
The following is the Staff of the Health and Maternity
and Child Welfare Depts.
T. W. Hinds, M.D.fLond.): Medical Officer of
Health and Medical Supt., of Isolation Hospital.
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