[Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Montgomeryshire County Council.
- Montgomeryshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1971
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1971] / Medical Officer of Health, Montgomeryshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SITTING CASE CAR SERVICE: The demands on the Ambulance Service in this rural county with very limited public transport facilities are such that the use of a specialised ambulance vehicle is not always warranted and transport by car is arranged. This service is provided by a number of voluntary car owners and commercial taxi owners and has for many years been a valuable adjunct to the ambulance service. RAIL TRANSPORT: Long distance journeys can often be arranged more economically and to give a quicker journey by rail. 127 patients were carried in this way during the year to hospitals in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and London. British Rail Services do everything possible to help in making the journeys as comfortable as possible and the Local Authorities at the receiving end co-operate fully in transporting patients from the stations to hospital. STATISTICAL INFORMATION: Hospital Journeys jJourneys 9 70 Mileage Patients ] J ourneys L971 Mi leage Patients St. John Ambulance Brigade 378 15 ,517 591 „ _ Full-Time Ambulance Staff 2,898 130,004 12 ,051 8,847 2 34 ,42 8 24,020 Sitting Case Cars 4,347 2 89 ,966 17,773 3,919 218,412 9 ,064 Rail 112 14,794 172 108 11,693 127 7,735 450,2 81 30,5 87 12,874 464,533 33,211 Persons carried for other services - School Health, Chiropody and Social Services Full Time 387 8 ,982 2,311 1,600 20,443 4,467 Sitting Case Cars 4,170 19 3,696 23,062 4 ,250 202,169 27,273 TOTAL 4 ,557 202 ,6 78 25 , 373 5,850 222,612 31,740 GRAND TOTAL 12 ,292 652 ,959 55 ,960 18,724 687,145 * 64 ,951](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28862764_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
