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2. Removal to the Board's Hospitals.
(a) Only persons suffering from Small-pox, Fevers, or Diphtheria
are admitted into the Board's Hospitals.
(b) Every application must state the name, age, and full address
of the patient, from what disease suffering, and in cases of fever
the particular kind of fever; and also the name of the person
making the application.
(c) Unless a Medical Certificate be handed to the Ambulance Nurse
the patient will not be removed.
(d) Patients should leave all valuables, money, &c., and all outside
clothing at home, should wear body linen only, and be
wrapped in the blankets provided for the purpose.
(e) The Ambulance Nurse will leave, at the house from which the
patient is removed, a notice stating the Hospital to which the
patient is to be taken, and a copy of the regulations as to visiting,
etc.
3. Conveyance to other Places.
(a) Persons suffering from any Dangerous Infectious Disorder may
be conveyed by ambulance to places other than the Board's
Hospitals.
N.B.—Dangerous Infectious Disorders include the following:
Small-pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membraneous Croup, Erysipelas,
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid, Enteric, Eelapsing,
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.
(f) The Ambulances may be sent outside the Metropolitan district
only by special sanction of the Ambulance Committee or of the