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The hospital car service operated jointly by the British Red Cross
Society, the St. John's Ambulance Brigade and the Women's Voluntary
Services, provides cars and drivers who give their services voluntarily,
and by arrangement with the County Council takes many patients to and
from hospitals and clinics.
One of the rules on the use of local ambulances issued by the Ministry
of Health reads: "The obligation which rests on the Ambulance Service
is not to make arrangements for the conveyance of all persons suffering
from illness but only of those for whom special transport such as the
Service provides, is necessary. This applies just as much to transport
for sitting cases such as by means of cars in the hospital car service, as
to transport of stretcher cases".
LEGISLATION
Slaughter of Animals Act, 1958
This Act, which came into operation on the 18th January, 1959,
consolidated the Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933, the Slaughter of Animals
(Pigs) Act, 1953, the Slaughter of Animals (Amendment) Act, 1954 and
the Slaughterhouses Act, 1958 Section 8 and second schedule.
Housing (Underground Rooms) Act, 1959
The powers of an authority to close unhealthy underground rooms
under Section 12(2) of the Housing Act, 1936, were lost by the effect of
the Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954. This Act restores the earlier
position.
House Purchase and Housing Act, 1959
Amended legislation about improvement grants, providing in future
for discretionary and standard grants.