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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
regulation, or any neglect or incivility on t he part of the Drivers,
Nurses, or Attendants may be immediately reported to the undersigned.
The Servants of the Board are forbidden to accept any
gratuities or refreshments.
By Order,
W. F. JEBB,
Dated 16th December, 1889. Clerk to the Board.
THE SPREAD OF FEVER.
In very many cases of infectious fevers in London among the
middle and upper classes there can be no complete isolation, and,
consequently, no safeguard from the spread of fever to those in the
same house as the patient.
As scarlet fever is not only dangerous to life, but also entails a
long quarantine of about six weeks, it will be acknowledged that
complete isolation is most desirable.
At the London Fever Hospital in the Liverpool Road, Islington,
there are private rooms both for males and females, where the
patients are under the care of gentlemen of high professional skill,
and nurses who have been trained for their duty. Every requisite
for the fever patient is afforded him, and he is kept in the Hospital
until all traces of infection have disappeared.
The charge, including everything, is only £3 3s. per week.
Besides these private rooms there are many large well-ventilated
wards. Into these are admitted domestic servants, employes, and
others, the fee for the whole time the patient is in the Hospital
being only £2 2s., and where the patient is unable to pay the fee,
the amount is remitted, and in no case is a patient refused admission.
Either the wards or private rooms of this Hospital are at all times
available, and an ambulance is immediately dispatched for the
patient, on receipt of a telegram, which is accompanied by a person
accustomed to the duty, who is able to conduct the removal without
risk or discomfort to the patient.
MORTUARY, &c.
The Westminster Vestry has temporarily provided, at the
Premises, Nos. 35 and 37, Millbank Street, S.W., a place for
the reception of dead bodies, not being those of paupers, with a
room for post-mortem examinations. Application should be made
to the person placed in charge upon the premises (H. White), or
to the Sanitary Inspectors of the Vestry, of whom a copv of the
regulations can be obtained,