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Ambulance Facilities. (a) Infectious cases. Under the
Public Health (London) Act, persons in London suffering from
certain notifiable diseases may be conveyed, free of charge to,
and treated in, a hospital of the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and persons suffering from infectious disease may be conveyed
by ambulance to other places on payment.
(b) For non-infectious and accident cases. The London
County Council have now provided an ambulance station in
High Street, Woolwich, where a service is provided not only
for accidents and cases of sudden illness but also for maternity
•cases. This station enables Woolwich to have the same
ambulance service as the rest of London and the average call
time per case has been materially diminished. The ambulances
of the Asylums Board are available, on payment, for the
removal of non-infectious cases to hospitals or homes.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
It will be convenient to deal here with the work of the
Council in connection with Maternity and Child Welfare
during the year.
Staff. The staff at the end of the year is shewn in detail
in Section VIII.
Administrative Action in connection with the Notification
of Births. As a matter of routine, as soon as a notification of
a birth is received, suitable literature is sent to the mother
by post and the first visit is made by the Health Visitor
between the tenth and fourteenth day in all cases where such
visits are considered necessary or desirable. The necessity
for second visits is gauged by what is discovered at the first
visit, but as a general rule it has been found possible to work
up to the following standard: Three visits during the first
year and one visit in each subsequent year up to the age of
five.