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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 th'o year have been recorded in the preface,
(ii) (a) Laboratory Facilities.
During 1945 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 nov; 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 Food and Drugs Acts are submitted to
the Public Analyst.
(b) Ambulance Facilities.
(1) For infectious cases:
Cases removed to 7imbledon 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 servicc 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 171
Private Cases 235
Maternity Cases 27
Calls for Ambulance not required 31
Calls dealt with for hospitals.
County Hospital 123
St. Helier
Hospital 2
Total 589
St. John Ambulance - Accident Cases 88
Private Cases 341
Air Raid
Casualties 8
Total 437