Ambulance Service, Personnel, Evacuation of Stations and Workshops total number of ambulance calls recorded during the year in both the Emergency and Hospital Removal Branches of the Service was 10,153, an increase of 1,807 on 1936. It should be pointed out, however, that this figure is considerably less than the total number of calls actually handled by Brigade ambulances, as one ambulance was attached to the temporary Isolation Hospitals after they evacuated from Hongkew, and during the Cholera epidemic this handled a large number of additional calls under the direct control of the Hospital authorities, of which no record was kept.
The Emergency Branch received 6.088 calls during the year—an increase of 933 calls, oF 16.07% on 1936, This branch of the Ambulance Ser-vie has extended rapidly since it came under the control of the Brigade fon January 1, 1031—during which year only 870 calls were received—and it has. been recognized for some time as a very important branch of the: Council's Emergency Services, being responsible for greatly alleviating the suffering of the large number of patients it was called upon to "handle, by ensuring that they received proper ente and prompt despatch to hospital for medical treatment,
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