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Two new vehicles are on order.
A car for sitting cases is also kept.
The 24 hours are divided into 3 shifts of 8 hours, 8 a.m.
4 p.m. 4 p.m. - Midnight Midnight - 8 a.m. In the first
shift 5 ambulances and the car are manned, in the second 3
ambulances and in the third 2 ambulances.
Reciprocal arrangements exist with adjoining local
authorities.
The times that we require assistance from neighbours, and
they from us, are about equal.
Removals are comparatively easy to cope with but accidents,
which constitute about 10% of the total calls have the habit of
occurring in batches and it inevitably happens on occasions
that no ambulance is available at once and a few complaints
have been received on this account. On the other hand many
letters of appreciation of the service have been received.
A total of 9497 cases were moved in 1946.
MORTUARY
Fifty-seven bodies were received in the Mortuary and 12
of these were from Priern Barnet.
FOOD POISONING
In October there was an outbreak of food poisoning in a
factory whore meals are supplied to the employees from a canteen
on the premises. Out of approximately 150 persons who had the
midday meal 19 were taken ill with diarrhoea and vomiting during
the afternoon. As the result of a thorough investigation tinned
peas were suspected as the cause and samples of these and the
other articles of food eaten at the meal In questtlon were sent
to the Central Public Health Laboratory at Colindale and our
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