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Carshalton 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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Table: The following figures are in respect of the working of the service during the year :—

The following figures are in respect of the working of the service during the year :—

(1) Calls to street accidents, etc.23261293
Answered by own ambulances23058288
Referred to other ambulances235
(2) Calls to remove cases from domestic dwellings to nursing homes or hospitals, or vice versa511130741
Answered by own ambulances511130741
(3) Calls answered for services in other districts12
(4) Total calls answered1046
Distance travelled on callsmiles8797i
Average mileage per call .. .. .. .. .. „8.4
Number of occasions on which both ambulances out at same time ..61
Number of occasions on which a third call transferred to other ser
vices when both ambulances out3
Greatest number of calls received and answered in one day8

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I am indebted to Mr. C. P. Ingram, the Honorary Ambulance
Officer, for the information given above.
HOSPITALS.
Infectious Diseases.
Carshalton is one of the constituent districts of the Cuddington
Joint Hospital Board which provides isolation hospital accommodation
for the following areas :—
Banstead Urban District.
Carshalton Urban District.
Borough of Epsom and Ewell.
Leatherhead Urban District.
Borough of Sutton and Cheam.
The programme of extensions commenced in 1935 was completed
during the year when the new administrative buildings were
handed over.
The accommodation is now 126 beds as the Board relinquished
the tenancy of the auxiliary isolation hospital at Hook Road,
Epsom, on the 31st March, 1938.
The cases admitted are chiefly scarlet fever and diphtheria,
but any notifiable disease, except smallpox and puerperal pyrexia,
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