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AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The South Middlesex and Richmond Joint Hospital Board have
ambulances in which infectious cases are removed to hospital.
The Richmond Council has two motor ambulances for use in
accident and private cases. These are housed in an outbuilding
erected at the rear of the Technical Institute and are manned continuously
by whole-time Civil Defence personnel assisted by volunteers
from the St. John Ambulance Brigade. The service provided is
adequate for the needs of the Borough, and is in any case supplemented
where necessary by the use of Civil Defence vehicles. Recriprocal
ambulance facilitites have also been agreed by the Borough with the
L.C.C. with the Boroughs of Barnes, Brentford and Chiswick,
Surbiton and Twickenham, and with the Royal Borough of Kingston.
The following table shows the steady increase in the work of the
Richmond Ambulance Service:—
1935—841 calls. 1940—1,127 calls.
1936—862 calls. 1941—1,071 calls.
1937—913 calls. 1942—1,247 calls.
1938—943 calls. 1943—1,497 calls.
1939—1,046 calls. 1944—1,480 calls.

■"Including false alarms and malicious calls.