MEDICAL AND HEALTH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 5, 19 January 1942, Page 5

MEDICAL AND HEALTH

SECTION OF E.P.S. SERVICE

RED CROSS ON ROOFS

A review of the various sections of the local E.P.S. service took place at the meeting of the committee last week. Reporting upon the Medical and Health Section of the Borough E.P.S., the Controller stated that good progress was being made with the scheme. Adequate supplies for the fitting up and furnishing of the Temporary Hospital at the District High School should be available from the local business premises. In the event of damage to the business area these may not be available, and it is proposed shortly to conduct a house to house canvass to ascertain the availability of necessary requirements. A schedule had been prepared and householders would be asked to indicate what items they could supply if the need arose. Respecting the marking with a red cross of the roofs of the hospital and temporary hospital, it was suggested that under present methods of warfare that such marking may not be advisable because an unscrupulous air raider might then make these institutioins one of his first targets. In reply, the chairman of the Hospital Board, Mt L. Buddie, slated that it was not possible for us to improve the fighting morale of our enemies, and that should the institutions be not marked and be subject to bombing attack, that his Boartl would feel conscious of a serious omission. It was intended accordingly to lake appropriate measures.