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A. R. P. has become moulded into the Department and
the position now is that the A. R. P. Casualty Service
has become one of the sections of the Public Health
Department (general administration, infectious
diseases, maternity and child welfare, food, sanitation
housing and A.R.P.)
A.R.P. personnel is a continually changing one.
The depots and first aid posts have changed in site
and arrangement from time to time while, in addition,
circulars and instructions have been constant,
demanding literally daily attention and adjustment.
Various returns must be submitted to the scheme-making
authority - (Middlesex County Council) - with regard,
for example, to the six first aid posts at Stag Lane
County Clinic, Preston Manor County School, Monks Pari
Borough Clinic, Wembley Hospital, Imperial College
Pavilion, Claremont Avenue County School, to the two
mobile units and to the five ambulance and stretcher
party depots. The authorised establishment for these.
posts and depots is some 600 (full-time), while at the
present time approximately 500 volunteers are active
members of the organisation on a part-time basis.
To see to the enrolment of such a personnel, their
attendance registers and time sheets, their absence
due to illness or injury, their transfer, their constant
resignations, their training, the arrangement of
lectures by doctors and members of the first aid
organisations, the recruitment of nursing auxiliaries
the inspection of depots and posts, keeping up-to-date
the duties imposed upon and the necessary information
for the Casualty Service Controllers, requisitions
regarding Medical Stores and their recording, the
constant dissemination of instructions to the depots
and posts - such with a hundred-and-one other details
cannot do other than make a constant duty for every
member of the Public Health Department.
Besides introducing such a completely new subject
as A.R.P. the war has brought new aspects on Public
Health matters in general - for example the addition
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