FLYING BOMB VICTIMS

Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 5

FLYING BOMB VICTIMS

IMPROVED MEDICAL FACILITIES (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUG-BY, July 11. With the establishment of more base hospitals in France to deal with Allied battle casualties, more doctors and nurses will bo available to deal with flying bomb casualties in the London area. This'was disclosed by Sir Francis Fraser, Director-General of the Emergency Service'of the Ministry of Health. He said that in the early days after the invasion our wounded were taken to British ports and the more serious cases dealt with at hospitals on the spot. The less seriously wounded were taken to transit hospitals behind the ports, where they were removed, after the necessary immediate treatment, to hospitals in the Midlands or the north. There was no shortage of hospital beds in Britain for the accommodation of our wounded when the invasion started. The great difficulty was in obtaining the requisite number of experienced staff. For personnel necessary to maintain the hospitals reserved for our wounded at ports before they were sent to the Midlands and the north, doctors, nurses, and other medical staff were drained away from London. Now more military hospitals had been set up in France, and doctors and surgeons were returning to the London district to deal with civilian casualties. The start of their return was coincident with the arrival of the flying bomb, and with the establishment of more hospitals in France the civilian medical services (which it was necessary to restrict temporarily) will now gradually return to normality.