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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Giles (Camden) 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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109
The following are the revised Regulations issued by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board with reference to the removal
of patients suffering from Infectious Diseases:—

Table: Ambulance Service.For Infectious Cases Only.

Ambulance Service.

For Infectious Cases Only.

APPLICATION TO BE MADE:— In Daytime (9 a.m. to 8 p.m.To the Chief Office (Ambulance Department):Postal Address: Victoria Embankment (corner of Carmelite Street), E.C. Telegraphic Address: Asylums Board, London. Telephone Numbers 1601 and 1602 Holborn.
N. B.—Applications in the latter part of the day must be dispatched in time to reach the Offices before 8 p.m.
At Night Time (8 p.m. to 9 a.m.)To the Ambulance Stations:Eastern Ambulance Station, Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, N.E. North-Western Ambulance Station, Lawn Road, Fleet Road, Hampstead (near Hampstead Heath Railway Station), N.W. Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham (near West Brompton Railway Station), S.W. South-Western Ambulance Station, Landor Road, Stock-well (near Clapham Road Railway Station), S.W. South-Eastern Ambulance Station, New Cross Road (near Old Kent Road Railway Station), S.E. Brook Ambulance Station, Shooters Hill, Kent.

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2.—REMOVAL TO THE BOARD'S HOSPITALS.
(a) Only persons suffering from Small-pox, Fevers, or Diphtheria
are Admitted into the Board's Hospitals.
(b) 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.