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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health—1892
Metropolitan Ambulance Service.
(See Appendix a.)
Stations within or near the Parish containing litters and stretchers and proded by
the Street Ambulance Branch of the Hospital Association for the transfer
sick and injured persons (infectious cases excepted), are situated as follows:-
Marshalsea Road, at the junction with Mint Street
Fire Brigade, Head Quarters, Southwark Bridge Road.
Fire Brigade Station, Waterloo Road.
St. Thomas' Hospital.
Guy's Hospital, Southwark.
All metropolitan patients suffering from small-pox, fevers and diphtheria
ay, on application, be conveyed too and fro and treated free within the isolation
Hospital of the Asylums Board.
The Ambulance Station nearest the Parish is the South-Eastern one situate
the New Cross Road (near Old Kent Road Railway Station), S.E.
Telephonic communication can be made from the Health Department
???ice hours), to the chief office of the Asylums Board, and within a few minutes an
???bulance will be on its way for the conveyance of the patient to the South???astern
Hospital (adjoining the South-Eastern Ambulance Station) if suffering from
ver or diphtheria, or to the South Wharf at Rotherhithe if it be a case of smallx.
In the latter case, the patient will embark in one of the ambulance steamers
r the hospital ships at Long Reach.
The Convalescent Hospitals, belonging to the Asylums Board, are two in
number: That for fevers and diphtheria is situated at Winchmore Hill, in the North???st
of London; that for small-pox at Gore Farm, Darenth, distant about four miles
om the hospital ships.
Patients in a position to bear the expense of their support, and suffering from
vers and diphtheria, or small-pox, can be accommodated at the London Fever
hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington, and at the Highgate Small-pox Hospital,
spectively.
The Vestry and the New Sanitary Legislation.
The Vestry recognizing that many new additional and onerous duties had recently
been imposed by the Legislature upon the staff in the Health Department appointed, in
???ie latter half of 1892 (a) a Clerk, (b) anew Mortuary-keeper and Assistant Disinfector.
he disinfector at the same time relinquished his duties in the mortuary and
evotes his whole time to disinfecting, serving notices, and assisting the sanutary
ispectors.
The present inspectorial staff, however, consisting of two Sanitary Inspectors
???ly is quite inadequate to carry out effectively the increased duties devolving upon
???ie Vestry under the recent provisions of the Public Health (London) Act the.
actory and Workshop Act, and the Housing of the Working Classes Act. At
resent—attention to complaints, the inspection of the premises of infectious cases,
???ie visiting of works under progress, Court work, and other pressing duties leaves
???ttle—if any-time to the Inspectors for such important mattere as smoke consump
on, the illegal occupation of underground rooms (recently transferred from the
.C.C. District Surveyor to the Sanitary Authority), the inspection. of workshops and
orkplaces, to say nothing of the stringent bye-laws of the London County Coucil
Which are very shortly to be enforced.
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