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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 1947 bacteriological examinations were
carried out by Dr. D.5. Murray at the Laboratory,
37, Coombe Road, as part of a pathological service
administered by the Surrey County Council. In addition,
the Ministry of Health Laboratory at Epsom is available
for consultations and, if an occasion should arise, for
the investigation of any important outbreaks of disease.
Bacteriological examinations of milk are also 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 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 277
Private Cases 196
Maternity Cases 28
Calls for Ambulance not required 14
Calls dealt with for hospitals.
County Hospital 16
531
The St. John Ambulance dealt with a considerable
number of accident, private and sickness cases throughout
the year. This service proved invaluable as a supplement
to the Corporation Accident Ambulance Service, and its value
is indicated by the fact that 560 cases were carried
of which 92 were accident cases within the borough
and 12634 miles were covered.
This is entirely a voluntary service for night
runs and at weekends. There was one paid driver for day
duty.