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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health-1892 43
(e) One person only will be allowed to accompany the patient, and such
person may be conveyed back to the place from which the patient
was conveyed. If desired a nurse will be supplied at an additional
charge of 2s. 6d. for her services.
(f) The ambulances may be sent outside the Metropolitan District only
by special sanction of the Ambulance Committee or of the Clerk to
the Board, and in such cases an extra charge will be made of 1s. for
every mile outside the Metropolitan area.
4. The drivers of the Board's ambulances are not allowed to loiter on their
journeys or to stop for refreshments on pain of instant dismissal. It is
particularly requested that any breach of this reflation, or any neglect or
incivility on the part of drivers, nurses, or attendants may be immediately
reported to the undersigned.
The servants of the Board are forbidden to accept any gatuities or refresh,''
ments.
B—PENALTY.—By Section 70 of the "Public Health (London) Act, 1891,"
it is enacted that—" It shall not be lawful for any owner or driver of a public
" conveyance knowingly to convey, or for any other person knowingly to place
in any public conveyance, a person suffering from any dangerous infections
" disease, or for a person suffering from any such disease to enter any public
" conveyance, and if he does so he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
" TEN POUNDS"
??? gulations as to furnishing information relative to the condition
of Patients, and as to the Visiting of Patients.
Information as to condition of patients:—
2. Upon the admission of a patient, a letter will be sent to the nearest knovn
relative or friend, setting forth the state of the patient. Should any serious
change for the worse take place, a letter will be sent daily to the relative
or friend, stating how the patient is progressing, which letter will be continued
until the patient is in such a condition as to render further communications
unnecessary; but should the patient become dangerously ill,
notice will be sent to the nearest known relative or intimate friend, with
an intimation that the patient may be visited; and at the discretion of the
Medical Superintendent, arrangements may be made for the conveyance of
the visitor to and from the hospital.
3. Enquiries as to the condition of patients must be made in writing to the
Medical Superintendent, who will reply by return of post. It is very
undesirable that friends of patients should personally make enquiries at tin-
hospital.
Visiting:-
4. The visiting of patients is limited to the nearest relatives and intimate friends
of patients dangerously ill. One visit will only be allowd daily to each
patient. Visits, which will not be permited without the perission of the
Medical Superintendent, are, as a rule, to be limited in duration to a ,
quarter of an hour. In urgent and special cases, however, the Medical
Superintendent is empowered to increase the number of visitors to two, and
to extend the duration of the visit.
5. Visitors are warned that they run great risk in entering the hospitals. They
are advised not to go into the wards of the small-pox hospitals without
having been properly re-vaccinated, and if they reside where the case visited
occurred, are earnestly requested to urge the remainder of the occupiers of