AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 9

AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS

WARNING SIGNALS IN LONDON TEST GF SYSTEM TO BE MADE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, December 1. (Received December 2, at 11.30 a.m.V The biggest test of air raid warning signals in Britain will be made on December 8, when 100 sirens installed at selected police stations in Greater London will be sounded simultaneously. The object of the test is to determine whether or not sirens give adequate warning within the area, PLANS FOR MEDICAL SERVICES (British Official Wireless.^ RUGBY, December 1. (Received December 2, at 11.30 a.m.Y Speaking in the House of Commons debate on medical services in civil defence, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health described the plans for expansion on a great scale in war time. At the outbreak of war the best place for a doctor would be with his own patients, thereafter he would be directed where the need was greatest. A central register/of nurses and nursing auxiliaries was being established. The Ministry had surveyed the hospital accommodation of the country covering 400,000 beds available for air raid casualties, and at the end of a fortnight an additional 100,000 beds. First, aid posts, etc., were being circularised and measures taken to ensure that they were properly complementary to the hospital services. Large quantities of equipment were being delivered and more was on order, and there were large stocks in the country. Referring to clearing the hospitals, he said that during the crisis the hospital evacuation scheme for London could have been put into action at 12 hours’notice.