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in every telephone box. Where the dialling system is in operation, it is necessary
to dial 999 and ask the operator for "Ambulance." No charge is made for the use
of the telephone if the call is made from a public box.
(b) Maternity Cases.— Maternity cases can be removed to hospital by ambulance
if an ambulance card is obtained from the hospital when the bed is booked. Urgent
cases, whether previously arranged for or not, can be removed when accompanied
by a doctor or a nurse. Telephone No. Waterloo 6000 or Regent 4000. No charge
is made for the ambulance, but the telephone call must be paid for.
(c) Removal of Sick Persons.— The London County Council will arrange for the
removal of sick persons by ambulance to hospitals or any place within the County
of London. No charge is made for the removal of cases of infectious disease to the
London County Council hospitals. Non-infectious cases removed to the London
County Council hospitals are subject to assessment. Otherwise the standard charge
is 12s. 6d. Full particulars and arrangements for removal can be obtained by
telephoning Waterloo 3311, or writing to the Medical Officer of Health, London
Ambulance Service, London County Council, The County Hall, S.E.I.
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
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 1s. 0d. per visit for one case; 6d. per visit,
Zymotic Enteritis per case, for more than one case in the
Whooping Cough house at the same time.
Poliomyelitis