400.000 BEDS FOR AIR MID CASUALTIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1938, Page 9

400.000 BEDS FOR AIR MID CASUALTIES.

BRITISH PLANS

Vigorous Organisation in

Progress.

REPORT TO PARLIAMENT

BrlflMh Offit-inl Wireless

( Received 11 no a.m.)

HlfilH, Dpcrrjilicr 1

Spoakin. i„ the House of Commons debate on medical services in civil defence, the Parliamentary Secretary " the Ministry of Health. Mr |{ Bet-nays, described plans for eximn«.n a -reat scale i„ wartime

At tl„. out break of »,„■ the bet place . a <» he «as his own "hid, he would he (111 rrt«'<l to where t lie nee<| was greatest. A ii tiital of nurses and nursing l) 11 x111 )i ries was beinjr established.

I he Ministry had snrveved the hospital accommodation of the country coverill;.' tINUNNI beds available for air raid m-unities and at the end of a fortnight an additional l(MUH)0 beds.

First a if! post*. etc.. were being larised ii ml iiii'iisuits taken tli.il tlicv were properly c. >111 arv t<> hospital serv iifs. I.arge quantities of •• • 11li| n11I■,ll.1■,1 1. were l.i-iii- dcli\ ered. ami nunc was on cider, and there were lar-je ► links in the country. ™

l!ctcrring to clearing hospitals. Mr, liernays said that during the September •'lisis the hospital evacuation scheme for Lomlon could have heen put into action Oil 12 hours' notice.