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(b) Persons meeting with accidents in their homes ;
(c) Persons suffering from illnesses in their homes if a medical practitioner
certifies that the case is one of life or death, and that arrangements have
been made for the reception of the patient in a hospital;
(d) Parturient women, if the case is one of urgency whether from the home,
place of business or elsewhere, on the application of a qualified medical
practitioner or certified midwife, provided that either a doctor or midwife
accompanies the case ; and
(e) Non-urgent cases of parturition. In such cases admission to a maternity
bed must have previously been arranged and a card (issued by the County
Council to hospitals, maternity homes, etc.) for such admission obtained.
The card must be handed to the ambulance attendant at the time of removal.
The husband or a female friend must accompany the patient.
(/) To the Council's hospitals and institutions.
Ambulances are supplied on payment of prescribed charges for the conveyance
of cases between private houses, hospitals (other than the Council's hospitals, etc.),
nursing homes, and for examinations, consultations and treatment by specialists or
at special establishments.
The standard charge for the removal of one patient from one place to another
within the County of London is 12s. 6d. This charge includes, if necessary, the
services of a male attendant. A doctor and one friend is allowed to accompany the
patient. For journeys extending outside the County for one or two persons in
addition to the Council's staff, 1s. 6d. a mile up to 50 miles and thereafter Is. 3d. a
mile is charged.
v. Professional Nursing in the Home.
During the year, nursing assistance was available in all parts of the Borough.
Such assistance is provided by six Nursing Associations, as follows :—
Woolwich and Plumstead District Nursing Association.
Silvertown and North Woolwich District Nursing Association.
Eltham Provident Nursing Association.
New Eltham District Nursing Association.
Horn Park District Nursing Association.
Mottingham District Nursing Association.
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