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Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Typhus,
Typhoid, Enteric, Relapsing, Continued and Puerperal
Fevers, and Measles.
(b) Every application for an Ambulance must state:—
(i.) Name, sex, and age of patient.
(ii.) Description of disease, and, in the case of fever,
the particular kind of fever.
(iii.) Full address from which the patient is to be
conveyed.
(iv.) Full address to which the patient is to be
conveyed.
(c) The patient must be provided with a Medical Certificate
of the nature of the disease, to be handed to the Driver
of the Ambulance.
(d) The charge for the hire of the Ambulance, including
(when the patient is over ten years of age) the services
of a male attendant is 5s. This amount must be paid
to the Driver, who will give an official receipt for the
same.
(e) One person only will be allowed to accompany the
patient, and such person may be conveyed back to the
place from which the patient was conveyed.
(/) The Ambulances may be sent outside the Metropolitan
district only by special sanction of the Ambulance
Committee or of the Clerk to the Board, and in such
cases an extra charge will be made of is. for every mile
outside the Metropolitan area.
4. The Drivers of the Board's Ambulances are not allowed
to loiter 0:1 their journeys or to stop for refreshments on pain of
instant dismissal. It is particularly requested that any breach
of this regulation, or any neglect or incivility on the part of the
Drivers, Nurses, or Attendants may be immediately reported to
the undersigned.
The Servants of the Board are forbidden to accept any
gratuities or refreshments.
by order, W. F. JEBB,
Dated 16th December, 1889. Clerk to the Board.
From the above it will be seen that the Asylums Board is
now the body to provide accommodation, &c., for infectious
diseases in the Metropolis, whether they come under the denomination
of paupers or otherwise.