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METROPOLITAN ASYLUMS BOARD.
Ambulance Service.
Removal of Persons suffering from Infectious Diseases.
1. APPLY ON WEEK
DAYS, between 8 a.m
and 8 p.m. To the Chief Offices:
Postal Address: Norfolk House, Norfolk Street,
Stand, W.C.
Telegraphic Address:
Asylums Board, London.
Telephone Number 2858 and
2859 Gerrard.
N. B.—Applications in the latter part of the day must be dispatched in time
to reach the Offices before 8 p.m.
AT NIGHT, BETWEEN 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., and
on Sundays, Christmas
Day, and Good Friday. To the Ambulance Station:
Eastern Ambulance Station,
Booksby's Walk, Homerton, N.E.
South-Eastern Ambulance Station, New Cross Road (near Old Kent Road
way Station), S.E.
Western Ambulance Station,
Seagrave Road, Fulham.
S.W.
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, &c.