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SECTION. B.
General Provisions of Health Services.
1. (i) Public Health Officers.
The staff of the Public Health Department is as
shown in the preface to the report. Changes of staff
during the year have been recorded in the preface*.
(ii) (a) Laboratory Facilities.
During 1944 bacteriological examinations were
carried out by Dr. D.S. Murray, at the laboratory, 37,
Coombe Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, as part of the emergency
pathological service. Arrangements are in force
whereby private practitioners send specimens for examination
direct to the laboratory, and in most cases the cost
is charged to the Corporation. One small change was
made during the year in that charges are now based on
units of work instead of a set sum per: specimen. In
actual fact this has made very little difference to the
total cost of the laboratory service.
In addition bacteriological examinations of milk
are undertaken by the Clinical Research Association and
samples under the Poods and Drugs Acts are submitted to
the Public Analyst,
(b) Ambulance Facilities.
(1) For infectious cases:
Cases removed to Wimbledon Isolation Hospital are
transported by the Motor Ambulance attached to that
hospital.
(2) For non-infectious and accident cases a
motor ambulance is provided by the Corporation. A
supplementary ambulance service was also provided by the
St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Accident cases are removed free but a charge is
made for the use of the ambulance for private cases.
During the year the following numbers of accident and
private cases were removed:-
Corporation Ambulance - Accident Cases 127
Private Cases 215
St. John Ambulance - Accident Cases 19
Private Cases 149