EXPANSION IN WARTIME
MEDICAL SERVICES HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION RUGBY’, Dec. 1. Speaking in a House of Commons debate on medical sendees in civil defence, 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, he said, the best place for a doctor would be with his own patients. Thereafter he would be directed to 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 were on order, and there were large stocks in the country. Referring to clearing hospitals, he said that during the crisis a hospital evacuation scheme for London could have been put into action at twelve hours’ notice.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 288, 6 December 1938, Page 10
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