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iii. Ambulance Facilities.
The London County Council's ambulance service is available:—
(а) For the removal to hospital, free of charge, of persons suffering from
infectious disease;
(b) For the removal, on payment, of persons suffering from non-infectious
diseases to hospitals or other places;
(c) For the removal, free of charge, of cases of accident and sudden illness
arising in the streets or public buildings, to hospitals or home.
(d) For the removal, free of charge, of maternity cases throughout the day
and night, but urgent maternity cases must be accompanied by a doctor
or nurse.
iv. Professional Nursing in the Home.
During the year nursing assistance was available in all parts of the Borough.
Such assistance is provided by four Nursing Associations, as follows:—
Woolwich and Plumstead District Nursing Association:
All Woolwich (except North Woolwich) and Plumstead.
Silvertown and North Woolwich District Nursing Association:
North Woolwich.
Eltham Provident Nursing Association:
All Eltham (except New Eltham).
New Eltham District Nursing Association:
New Eltham.
All these Associations insist that the patient shall be under the care of a medical
practitioner, and, in ordinary circumstances, only nurse non-infectious cases. On
the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health, however, they provide nursing
assistance for cases of measles, whooping cough, zymotic enteritis, ophthalmia
neonatorum, pneumonia, anterior poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, puerperal fever and
puerperal pyrexia. For nursing assistance the Borough Council pay, in necessitous
cases, in accordance with the following schedule:—
Disease. Rate of Payment.
Measles
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Zymotic Enteritis
Whooping Cough
Poliomyelitis 1s. 0d. per visit for one case ; 6d. per visit, per case, for more than one case in the
house at the same time.