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case of Small Pox to remain at home distributing infection broadcast.*
In none of the seven houses from which these cases had
been removed did any second outbreak occur.
*Note.— The Metropolitan Asylums' Board has recently (June
18th) issued some New Regulations under which patients suffering
from infeotious diseases are admitted to hospital. The
previous ones are cancelled. Numbers 2 and 3 are of most importance
; the regulations read as follows:—
metropolitan asyltjms board.
REGULATIONS
For the Removal of Small Pox and Fever Patients.
1. Applications for the removal of patients to the hospitals of the
Board must be made as follows :—
TO THE CHIEF OFFICES (Ambulance Department), on week
days between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Care must be taken that
applications made in the latter part of the day are despatched
in time to reach the Offices before 8 pm.
TO THE AMBULANCE STATIONS (The Superintendents), every
week day between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., and all day on Sundays,
Christmas Day, and Good Friday.
Tho Ambulance Stations are situate as under:—
Eastern Ambulance Station, Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, E.
South-Eastern Ambulance Station, New Cross Road (near
Old Kent Road Railway Station), S.E.
Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham, S.W.
2. Every application 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 he represents.
Applications which do not give these particulars will be referred back to
the applicant for the required information to he 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 these documents be handed to the Nurse, the patient
will not be removed.