[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Oldham County Borough.
- Oldham (England). County Borough Council. nb2004302054.
- Date:
- 1948
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Oldham County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![COUNTY BOROUGH OF OLDHAM. National Health Service Act, 1946. Health Services to he provided by Local Health Authorities under Part IH of the Act. Approved by the Minister of Health on the 25th May, 1948. AMBULANCE SERVICE. The present • Borough Ambulance Service was established in 1922 and under an agreement the area served included, in addition to the borough, the Urban Districts of Chadderton, Crompton, Failsworth, Lees, Royton and Springhead (now part of Saddleworth). The agreement provided that the Corporation should send ambulances for the purpose of removing persons injured by accidents and patients of medical prac¬ titioners within the area of the District Councils, except those patients suffering from infectious diseases or lunatics. Ratepayers in the area covered by the agreement are conveyed free of cost within a radius of ten miles. In 1932 an arrangement was entered into whereby the Watch Committee contracted with the Health Committee to remove patients from Boundary Park Hospital to and from the Middleton area at a fixed charge per patient. The service was carried out by members of the Fire Brigade staffs under the control of the then Chief Constable, Mr. A. K. May all, O.B.E. Following the formation of the National Fire Service the Ambulance Service passed to the Civil Defence Service for operational purposes and came under the control of the Emergency Committee. In August, 1945, the Service was transferred to the Carrying and Cleansing Committee and came under the control of the Director of Public Cleansing. PROPOSALS FOR THE PROVISION OP' AN AMBULANCE SERVICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 27 OP' THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE ACT, 1946, AND CIRCULAR 66/47. Part I. 1. The Registrar General’s estimate of the population of the Borough in the middle of 1946 is 116,240 and that for Oldham and the out- districts served by the ambulance service is 248,884. 2. The area of the borough is 7\ square miles and that of Oldham and adjacent districts served bv the ambulance service 60] square miles. 3. EXISTING AMBULANCE SERV ICES. There are two services available, the Borough Ambulance Sendee administered by the Cleansing and Transport Committee under the control of the Director of Public Cleansing, and the Infectious Diseases Ambulance Sendee administered by the Health Committee under the control of the Medical Officer of Health. * (i ) Borough Ambulance Service. A. The present agreement provides for a service in respect of the County Borough and contiguous County Districts namely the Urban Districts of Chadderton, Crompton, Royton, Failsworth, Lees and the Parishes of Woodhouses, Bardsley, Alt and Littlemoss in the Rural Dis¬ trict of Limehurst, all in the area of the Lancashire County Council, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29937218_0150.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
