E.P.S. ORGANISATION
MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE. NEW PERSONNEL ENROLLED. Following on the setting up of the Hospital Precautions Emergency Service as a separate organisation, some readjustment of the E.P.S. scheme was necessary regarding arrangements for the handling of casualties. At a meeting last night a new committee, to be known as the Medical and Public Health Committee was set up, the personnel being: Controller, Dr. Archer Hosking; chairman, Mr Norman Lee; secretary, Mr W. S. Flaws; committee members, Messrs J. Ninnes, J. V. Gordon, F. Cairns and T. A Russell It was explained that the duty of the committee was the delivery of casualties to the clearing stations and of hospital cases to the hospital. Further proposed clearing stations, it was reported, were to be inspected and the Cadet Division of the St. John Ambulance were to be requested to assist at casualty clearing stations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 2
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145E.P.S. ORGANISATION Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 2
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