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AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
1. For Infectious Disease.
The Ealing and Brentford & Chiswick Hospitals Committee
provide a motor ambulance for the removal of cases of infectious
disease to the Clayponds Isolation Hospital at South Ealing.
2. For Accidents and Cases of Acute Illness.
Before the outbreak of War in September, 1939, the Borough
Ambulance Service was controlled by the Chief Officer of the
Fire Brigade, but when War was declared the ambulances were
returned to the Public Health Department and drivers and attendants
drawn from members of the Civil Defence Ambulance Service
were used to keep the ambulances running.
In April this year with the end of the War and the disbandment
of the Civil Defence Service, the Ambulance Service was
re-organised on a peace-time basis.
For this purpose six drivers and six attendants were appointed
to man the ambulances and a temporary ambulance station was
provided in Longfield Depot at the back of the Town Hall.
Three suitably equipped ambulances were available and later
a comparatively new Civil Defence Ambulance was purchased as
a reserve. Another Civil Defence Ambulance was converted into
a utility car which is used, amongst other things, for the conveyance
of children to Health Centres or hospitals.