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each manned by a driver and attendant, are available during the
day period. From 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. a reduced staff of four men
are on duty for accident, maternity, and urgent hospital cases. The
increase in the number of maternity calls at night time has been
considerable, but it has not yet been necessary to expand the night
service.
Mutual aid with adjoining Boroughs has worked smoothly and
well.
Ambulance Charges.
The following pre-war scale of charges for the service of
ambulance and attendants still obtains, namely:—
Tottenham Residents:
To and from Prince of Wales's Hospital Free.
To any Hospital or Nursing Home in the
Metropolitan Police Area Free.
From any of the foregoing (excluding the
North Middlesex County Hospital) 5s.
From the North Middlesex County
Hospital 2s. 6d.
To or from any Railway Station in the
Metropolitan Police Area 5s.
House to House removal 5s.
Outside Metropolitan Police Area 1s. 6d. per mile.
Non-Tottenham Residents.
7 a.m. to 10 p.m.—15s. per hour for the first hour or any
part thereof, and subsequently at the rate of 15s. per
hour.
10 p.m. to 7 a.m.—Substitute 20s. for 15s. as above.
Two school buses for conveying children to four Day Special
Schools: Oak Lodge School, Finchley, Vale Road School for
Physically Handicapped Children, the School for Partially Sighted
Children, Walthamstow, and Tottenham School for the Deaf,
Philip Lane, are attached to the Ambulance Service, and two
utility vans are maintained for transporting school meals.