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WESTERN AMBULANCE STATION.
In my last annual report I referred to the inadequacy of
the Western Ambulance Station for the needs of the West
District, and to the intention of the Asylums Board to increase
the accommodation thereat. 'The present accommodation
provides for, male staff, 15 ; female staff (including nurses) 11 ;
horses 15 ; and v ehicles L-'i. The Managers have accepted a
tender for the enlargement and re-construction of the Station.
The works proposed include construction of additional cubicles,
for five men and eight small-pox nurses, and other staff accommodation
: coachhouse, capable of conversion into stabling ;
extension of washing-shed and of storage for provisions, &c. ;
removal of laundry, and its re-construction on a larger scale on
another site ; re-construction and enlargement of the Superintendent's
house and offices, and other minor improvements, at
a cost of about three thousand fix e hundred pounds. These
additions will place the Station, in which Kensington is
specially interested, on a level with the other two Stations in
respect of accommodation.
PAYMENT FOR NON-PAUPER CASES IN
HOSPITAL
I have had occasion in many previous annual reports, to
discuss the question of the ipcidencc of charge for the cost of
maintenance in the Asylums Board Hospitals of non-pauper
patients removed thereto for isolation, and to press the advantage,
from a public health point of view, of making the hospitals
free to all comers—a subject with w hich 1 first dealt in a report
to your Vestry dated January 10, 1877. J'he hospitals had
been practically free for sometime when, in 1888, on the
publication by the Managers of astatement that, in a specified