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The Council affords facilities to all medical men practising in the district
for the examination of pathological specimens, and this work is carried out by
the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
The following table shows the work done during the year 1937 (exclusive
of work done for the Isolation Hospital).

Ambulance Facilities.
For Infectious Cases.
A Morris motor ambulance, purchased in October, 1929, is in use for
conveying infectious patients to hospital and for disinfection work. The mileage
for the year was 3,132.
For non-infectious and accident cases.
Two motor ambulances under the charge of the Chief Officer of the Fire
Brigade are provided by the Council for the use of residents, to remove noninfectious
and accident cases to hospital and for other ambulance work.
One ambulance is a W. & G. du Cros, purchased in January, 1930, and
the other is a Commer De Luxe, purchased in July, 1932.
Efficient service continues to be rendered.
The following figures show the year's working of the motor ambulances
for non-infectious and accident cases :—