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Ambulance Facilities.
See report for 1930.
The two ambulances operating from the Fire Station carried
out the following work during 1932 :—
Cases conveyed to and from various hospitals 1,514
Accident cases 422
Illness cases 1,092
Journeys made 1,541
Miles run 13,896
East Ham cases removed by other ambulances :—
Barking 16
Ilford 6
West Ham 19
Cases removed for other authorities :—
West Ham 20
Barking 7
Laboratory Facilities.
The same arrangements exist for the examination of swabs
as in previous years.
The number of swabs examined at the Infectious Diseases
Hospital and the Town Hall Laboratory were as follows :—
No. Positive. Negative.
2,001 114 1,887
Of the above total 236 were examined at the hospital.
Facilities for the examination of other material were provided
at several outside laboratories on behalf of the Council until the
end of November, but on 1st December, 1932, an arrangement
was commenced for all these specimens to be sent for examination
to the East Ham Memorial Hospital Laboratory, at charges agreed
upon by the Council.