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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
Ealing 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
The following table indicates the number of specimens which were examined in the Council's Pathological Laboratory during the year:—
| Positive | Negative | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria: | |||
| From Practitioners in the Borough | 49 | 657 | 706 |
| From the Isolation Hospital | 328 | 1,994 | 2,322 |
| Tuberculosis | 104 | 264 | 368 |
| Miscellaneous | 22 | 274 | 296 |
| Total | 503 | 3,189 | 3,692 |
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
1. For Cases of Infectious Disease.—Cases of infectious
disease requiring removal to the Chiswick and Ealing Isolation
Hospital are conveyed in the motor ambulance maintained by
the Hospitals Committee.
2. For Non-Infectious and Accident Cases.—The Council
has three well-equipped motor ambulances and a day and night
service is provided. Following the removal of the Fire Brigade
to new quarters at St. Leonard's Road the old Fire Station was
taken over and adapted for use as an Ambulance Station. Two
ambulances, one of which was purchased during 1933, are housed
at this new Ambulance Station, while the third ambulance is
kept at the new Fire Station and whenever the regular ambulance
drivers are not available the Fire Brigade are able to answer urgent
calls. Details of the runs carried out during the past six years
are given in the following table:—