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Public Ambulance.
47. The public non-infectious ambulance continues to be
maintained as described in my last Annual Report (p. 78). It
was used 97 times last year compared with 90 times in 1903.
The following were the journeys made
Guy's Hospital 26 London Hospital 8
Cottage Hospital Charing Cross 7
Seamen's and Miller 10 Other Hospitals 6
King's Hospital 12 Union Infirmary 11
St. Thomas' Hospital 10 Private Houses 7
Health Leaflets,
48. The Health Rules which were printed in 1902, and
published with the Annual Report for 1901, are now left at
every house which is inspected house to house. These, or the
special cards containing the rules " How to Feed Baby" were
distributed at every house in about half the streets of the
Borough during the prevalence of diarrhoea last summer. For
the benefit of a number of foreigners, mostly coming from
Austria and Germany, living in North Woolwich, the Health
Leaflets were translated into German and distributed at the
houses where these persons live, which are chiefly in Auberon
Street. Overcrowding was suspected in these houses for some
time, but the Sanitary Inspectors were unable to obtain information
as to the numbers occupying them as the occupiers
did not speak English. Consequently, your Medical Officer of
Health went through all these houses personally, and by aid of
his slight knowledge of the German language, was able to detect
a number of cases of overcrowding.