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(c) Unless a Medical Certificate of the nature of the disease be
handed to the Ambulance Nurse the patient will not be removed.
(d) Patients should leave all valuables, money, &c., and all outside
clothing at home, should wear body linen only, and be wrapped in the
blankets provided for the purpose.
(e) The Ambulance Nurse will leave at the house from which the
patient is removed a notice seating the Hospital to which the patient is
to be taken, and a copy of the regulations as to visiting, &c.
N.B.—In any case of failure to remove on the day of application, in
consequence of pressure on the accommodation in the Board's Hospitals,
the application must be renewed every morning so long as the patient
continues in a fit state for removal and removal is desired. Each
application must contain a statement of the circumstances which render
the removal urgent.
Similar applications must be made in respect of patients taken
from General Hospitals or other places to their homes, owing to there
being no vacant bed available in the Board's Hospitals.
Forms of application for the use of Public Officials may be obtained
upon application to the undersigned.
3.—CONVEYANCE TO OTHER PLACES.
(a) Persons suffering from Any Dangerous Infectious Disease*
may be Conveyed by Ambulance to Places Other Than the Board's
Hospitals.
(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.
(Arrangements for the reception of the patient must
be made before application for the Ambulance).
(c) The patient must be provided with a Medical Certificate of
the nature 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 is over ten years of age) the services of a male attendant, is
5s. This amount must be paid to the Driver, who will give an official
receipt for the same.
(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.