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and cause decay unless cleansing foods are taken after them;
they should be followed by a cleansing food:—White bread,
sweet biscuits, cake, marmalade, jam, honey, most sweets,
chocolate, sweet puddings, patent foods, potatoes.
The following are cleansing foods and prevent decay:—
Fish, meat, bacon, uncooked vegetables, lettuce, celery,
radishes, watercress, cooked greens, and some other cooked
vegetables, stale wholemeal bread with crust, crisp toast,,
twice baked bread, cheese, butter, margarine, fruits (especially
apples and nuts).
(N.B.—Some of these, as nuts, celery, and radishes, are
not recommended for persons with weak digestion.)
Sidney Davies, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall, Woolwich."
PUBLIC AMBULANCE.
54. The Public Ambulance, for accidents and non-infecr
tious illness, was used 150 times, compared with 143, 123,
147, and 127, in the four preceding years. The following
were the journeys made:—
To Guy's Hospital 30
Cottage Hospitals 48
Seamen's and Miller Hospitals 13
King's Hospital 8
London Hospital 10
St. Thomas' 4
Union Infirmary 4
Other hospitals 11
Private houses 15
Asylums 7