MEDICAL SERVICES
CIVIL DEFENCE PLANS HOSPITAL TREATMENT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 1. Speaking in the debate in the House of Commons on the medical services in the civil defence scheme, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Mr. R. H. Bernays, described plans for expansion on a great scale in wartime. At the outbreak of war, the best place for a doctor would be with his own patients, said Mr. Bernays. 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 would be 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 hospitals, he siaid that during the recent crisis a hospital evacuation scheme for London could have been put into action at 12 hours’ notice.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 5
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195MEDICAL SERVICES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 5
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