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assistance to those objects which are served by health visiting.
Numerous lectures on the hygiene of the home, the prevention
of consumption, and other health subjects, were given at
various centres in the Borough, and evolved much interest.
I have also to report that as a delegate of the Borough
Council I attended the Congress of the Sanitary Institute,
held at York, and contributed a paper on the " Home Treatment
of Tuberculosis."
PUBLIC AMBULANCE.
53. The Public Ambulance, for accidents and non-infectious
illness, was used 127 times, compared with 122, 143,
123, and 147, in the four preceding years. The following
were the journeys made:—
To Guy's Hospital 23
Cottage Hospitals 33
Seamen's and Miller Hospitals 18
Ring's Hospital 5
London Hospital 5
Charing Cross Hospital 5
Union Infirmary 7
Other hospitals 3
Private houses 26
Asylums 2
Particulars of this ambulance were given in my Annual
Report, 1903, page 78. Sutton Messent, Esq., 234, Burrage
Road, is acting as Hon. Secretary for the Ambulance.
An ambulance for non-infectious illness can now be obtained
from the ambulance station of the Asylums Board on payment
of 5s., but in spite of this there seems little diminution in
the use of the Woolwich Ambulance.