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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark.
Regulations as to the Removal op Persons Suffering from
Infectious Diseases, See.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has published the following set of regutions
as to the removal of persons suffering from infectious diseases:—
1. Apply on week-days between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m., to the chief offices. Post
address: Norfolk House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. Telegrapl
address: Asylums Board, London. Telephone number, 2587. (N.B.
Applications in the latter part of the day must be dispatched in time to red
the offices before 8 p.m.) At night between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m., and
Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday, to the Ambulance Station
Eastern Ambulance Station, Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, N.E.; Sout
Eastern Ambulance Station, New Cross Road (near Old Kent Road Railway
Station), S.E.; Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham, S.N
2. Removal to the Boards hospitals:—
(а) Only persons suffering from small-pox, fevers, or diphtheria are admitted
into the Board's hospitals.
(б) Every application must state the name, age, and full address of tthe
patient, from what disease suffering, and in cases of fever t???
particular kind of fever; and also the name of the person maki???
the application.
(c) Unless a medical certificate be handed to the ambulance nurse, t???
patient will not be removed.
(d) Patients should leave all valuables, money, etc., and all outside clothi???
at home, should wear body linen only, and be wrapped in t???
blankets jrovided for the purpose.
(e) The ambulance nurse will leave, at the house from which the patient
removed, a notice stating the hospital to which the patient is to
taken, and a copy of the regulations as to visiting, etc.
3. Conveyance to other places:—
(a) Persons suffering from any dangeious infectious disease may be convey'
by ambulance to places other than the Board's hospitals.
N.B.—Dangerous infectious diseases include the following
small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipela???
scarlatina or scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued
and puerperal fevers and measles.
(b) Every application for an ambulance must state:—
(i.) Name, sex, and age of patient.
(ii.) Description of disease, and, in the case of fever, the particular
kind of fever.
(iii.) Full address from which the patient is to be conveyed,
(iv.) Full address to which the patient is to be conveyed.
(c) The patient must be provided with a medical certificate of the natural
of the disease, to be handed to the driver of the ambulance.
(d) The charge for the hire of the ambulance, including (when the patient
over ten years of age) the services of a male attendant, is 5s. The
amount must be paid to the driver, who will give an official recti???
for the same.