THE AMBULANCE PREPARES
The St. John Ambulance Brigade has completed preliminary arrangements for the ambulance services on Coronation Day—May 12. The six and a half miles along which the procession will pass have been divided into nine sections, and each section is to be under the command of an Assistant Commissioner. There will be on duty C 9 surgeons, 500 officers, 5000 n.c.o.s, and men, 165 nursing officers, and 1400 sisters. Ambulance men will be stationed at five-yard intervals all along each side of the route —approximately 700 to the mile. Located at strategic points will be 35 dressing stations, equipped to deal with more serious casualties. Each of these stations will be provided with motor ambulances for speedy transport of serious cases to hospital. Special arrangements are being made to ensure that these cars will be able to proceed quickly and easily on their journeys. To take immediate care of patients removed from the crowds will be 60 first-aid stations, placed at roughly 120-yaßd intervals along the route.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 5
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169THE AMBULANCE PREPARES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 51, 2 March 1937, Page 5
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