Digest of health statistics for England and Wales.
- Department of Health and Social Security
- Date:
- 1969-1971
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Digest of health statistics for England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Digest of health statistics for England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![Ambulance services TABLE 14.3 Unit 196] 1962 fn | | |e 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Cases carried Total Thousands 15,829 | 17,410 | 18,062 | 18,542 | 19,686 | 20,601 | 21,083 | 21,654 22,925 Section 27 (‘) (accident or emergency) ... ... | Thousands 890 990 1,029 1,079 1,148 1,203 1,298 1,314 1,421 Section 27 (other) Thousands 14,022 | 15,363 | 15,867} 16,211 | 17,178 | 17,920 | 18,271 | 18,693 19,652 Non-section 27 (2) Thousands 891 1,029 1,136 1,222 1,328 1,454 1,482 1,616 1,826 Rail + = Thousands 27 29 29 30 33 34 33 3] 27 Mileage Thousand miles 78,904 Thousand miles All services: Total 101,768 | 109,820 | 112,389 | 114,533 | 120,642 | 126,082 | 129,077 | 132,318 | 138,292 | 140,048 Directly by local authority 73,073 | 78,586 | 80,228 | 82,001 | 86,442 | 91,011] | 93,015 | 95,651 | 99,899 | 101,003 Thousand miles Agency service (3) 7,168 | 6,734 | 6,724] 6,665 6,227 5,494 | 4,850 3,646 | 3,464) 3,561 Thousand miles Supplementary (4) 19,125 | 21,777 | 22,750 | 23,159 | 25,169 | 26,625 | 28,342 | 30,347 | 32,362 | 33,042 Rail Thousand miles 2,402 10,191 2,722 2,686 10,863 | 11,38! 2,709 | 2,805 2,953 2,871 2,674 | 2,566} 2,442 11,661 | 12,106 | 12,356 | 12,623 | 12,861 | 13,172 | 13,293 Staff employed by L.A. (5) Persons 5,846 (1) Section 27 of the National Health Service Act 1946 placed a statutory duty on local health authorities to make provision for securing that ambulances and other means of transport are available, where necessary, for the conveyance of persons suffering from illness or mental defective- ness, or expectant or nursing mothers, from places in their area to places in or outside their area. (2) Non-section 27 cases cover such items as transport of children to L.A. centres etc. (3) Voluntary organisations who assume general responsibility for ambulance work over a definite part, or the whole of an authority’s area. (4) Occasional use of ambulances or cars. (5) At 30th September from 1966 otherwise as at 3Ilst March.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32184694_0145.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
