original communication.

 

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE MEDICAL SERVICES IN AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.

 

By

 

COLONEL E. M. COWELL,

D.S.O., T.D., D.L.', F.R.C.S.

 

CONTENTS.

 

INTRODUCTION

 

PRECAUTIONS ABROAD.

 

RECENT CASUALTY FIGURES

 

AIR ATTACK ON THE CIVIL POPULATION

Expectation of Casualties

 

A.R. P. IN GREAT BRITAIN

 

MEDICAL ORGANIZATION:-

Headquarters, General Outlines, Staff Officers, Consultants, Records

 

MEDICAL PERSONNEL REQUIRED AND DETAILED DUTIES PER 100,000 POPULATION

 

FINDING AND FIRST-AID TREATMENT OF CASUALTIES

 

COLLECTION, EVACUATION AND TRANSPORT

Motor Ambulance Convoys

 

FIRST-AID POSTS

Wounded and Gas

Walking Wounded. details of Personnel

 

CASUALTY CLEARING HOSPITALS

(Special Surgical Centres.) Details of Personnel C.C.H.

 

BASE HOSPITALS

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PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORIES

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DEPOTS OF MEDICAL STORES

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CONCLUSIONS

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Appendix I

Time Table of Performance of Medical Units

 

Appendix II

Lay-out of C.C.S. Walking Wounded Cases

 

Appendix III

Plan of Croydon General Hospital laid out as C.C.H.

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