[Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, East Sussex County Council.
- East Sussex (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1962
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1962] / Medical Officer of Health, East Sussex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![vehicles and personnel of the voluntary and directly operated ambulance stations as at the 31 st December, 1962. DIRECTLY 0FER.W:ED Station Full-Time Personnel No. of Vehicles Hove 17 8 ambu 1 a nc e s ( i nc lu di ng 2 dual purpose vehicles] Seaford 2 1 ambulance VOLUOTARY AGSI'JCrSS St« John Ambulance Brigade Battle k 2 ambulances (including 1 dual purpose vehicle) Bexhill 5 3 ambulances Hailsham k 2 ambulances (including 1 dual purpose vehicle) Lewes and Newhaven 9 5 ambulances (including 1 dual purpose vehicle) Rye k 2 ambulances (including 1 dual purpose vehicle) British Red Cross Society Growborough 3 2 ambulances East Grinstead 3 2 ambulances (including 1 dual purpose vehicle) Haywards Heath 8 3 ambulances (including 1 dual purpose vehicle) Uckfield 2 1 ambulance The follov;ing is a summary of the statistics relating to the running of the service; from this will be seen, as experienced by other Local Health Authorities, that a peak demand has not yet been reached, mainly ov/ing to the shorter periods of treatment at main hospitals. Patients are novr only kept for a few days in hospital after operation and are returned for examination and therapy at intervals by ambulance transport. OPERATIONAL STATISTICS AlffiULAlDES GARS 1961 1962 1961 1962 Patients 50,340 54,735 131,611 150,494 Mileage 475,80Z,- 512,044- 1,174,970 1 ,227,081](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2918700x_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
