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The following examinations were made:—
No. Positive
Examined. Results.
Swabs for diphtheria 217 19
Sputum for tubercle 19 5
Faeces for enteric, dysentry, etc. 23 4
Swabs for puerperal sepsis 1 1
Water:—
For chemical analysis 3
For bacteriological examination 5
Food and Drugs.—
Analyses 141
Bacteriological examination of
milk 92
Ambulance Facilities.
Infectious Cases—The removal of infectious cases to isolation hospital
is provided by the ambulances of the Cuddington Joint Hospital
Board.
Non-infectious Cases—The following information, kindly supplied
by the Hon. Ambulance Officer, indicates the use made of the
Council's Ambulance Servict during the year.
Calls to Street Accidents, etc. 210
Answered by own ambulances 185
Transferred to other authorities 25
Calls to remove cases from domestic dwellings to nursing
homes, hospitals, or vice versa 866
Answered by own ambulances 818
Transferred to other authorities 48
Calls answered for other authorities in other districts 93
Total calls answered 1,096
Distance travelled on calls (miles) 8 075
Average mileage per call (miles) 7.36
Number of occasions on which both ambulances were
out at the same time 6
Number of occasions on which a third call was transferred
to other services when both vehicles were out
or one under repair 73
Greatest number of calls answered in any one day 9
The service is free to residents for all types of cases for removal
within a 20-mile radius, and to and from County Hospitals. The
number of calls answered is 172 more than in 1944, chiefly due to an
increase in street accidents requiring the services of an ambulance
and to a greater number of calls answered for neighbouring authorities.
Complete reciprocal arrangements exist with most of the
neighbouring authorities.
HOSPITALS.
Carshalton is included in the area of the Cuddington Isolation
Hospital Board whose isolation hospital is situated on the southern
boundary of the Borough of Sutton and Cheam. Cases of infectious
illness admitted from this and other districts of the Board during
1945 are shown in Table 9, which is followed by a statement of the
cases admitted to other isolation hospitals under arrangements made
by the Cuddington Board. One ward block is now adapted for the
reception of typhus cases and for the cleansing of personnel handling
such patients.
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