AIR RAID DANGERS
PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN HOSPITAL ORGANISATION. MINISTER OUTLINES PLANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 13. ’ The Minister of Health, who has taken over from the Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, the responsibility for the question of hospitals for air raid casualties, has issued a circular to medical authorities explaining that the Ministry is outlining comprehensive plans which could be put into operation if the necessity arose. . Although the details would vary according to local circumstances, every hospital must be prepared to deal with those injured in air raids in its immediate neighbourhood. In addition any hospital not in a specially dangerous situation would be expected to receive both casualties and ordinary patients moved from the danger areas.
It is suggested that hospitals should be considering how best to arrange the existing bed accommodation to meet emergency requirements, and the point is made that each hospital should be prepared to clear as many beds as possible on receiving a warning that a state of emergency has arisen. •
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 5
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168AIR RAID DANGERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 5
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