London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Bethnal Green 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

This page requires JavaScript

24
Stations between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Sundays, and between 8 p.m.
and 8 a.m. every day.
2. Such applications must state the name, age, and full address
of the patient, from what disease suffering, and in cases of fever the
particular kind of fever; and also the name of the person making
the application, and the Parish ho represents. Applications which do
not give these particulars will be referred back to the applicant for
the required information to be furnished.
3. The Medical Certificate or Order for the admission of the
patient must be handed to the Nurse in charge of the Ambulance.
Should neither of those documents bo handed to the Nurse, the patient
will not bo removed.
4. Subject to the control of the Committee appointed to regulate
such matters, tho Clerk of tho Board is to give all necessary directions
for the removal of patients from their homos to the Hospitals, and
for the conveyanco of recovored patients from the Hospital Ships to
their homes.
5. At the time of the removal of a patient the Ambulance Nurse
is to leave with a relative or friend of the patient, or, in tho absence
of such a person, with a resident in the house from which the patient
is taken, a notice stating the Hospital to which the patient is to be
removed, and such notice is to have annexed to it a copy of the regulations
as to visiting, &c. She is also to place on the "Delivery
Note" left with the patient at the Hospital the name and address of
the relative, friend or resident above referred to.
6. Upon the removal being effected, the Superintendent of the
Ambulance Station shall report the fact to the Clerk to the Board, who
shall at once send notice thereof to the Clerk to the Guardians of the
Parish or Union from which the patient was conveyed.
7. Upon the transfer of a patient to another Hospital, notice
thereof is to bo sent by the authorities of the Hospital from which
the patient is transferred to the relative or friend of the patient, and
to the Clerk to the Guardians of the Parish or Union to which the
patient is chargeable.
8. When a patient is transferred to another Hospital, a copy of
the particulars given on the admission order relating to the patient
is to bo sent with the patient, care being taken that if such order does

TABLE D.

1884.1885.
Small Pox9922
Measle37163
Scarlet Fever10062
Diphtheria1419
Whooping Cough14292
Typhus Fever41
Enteric Fever4315
Simple Fever25
Diarrhœa13282
Cholera52
Totals578463