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Number of daily minders approved during 1944 1
„ approved daily minders at the end of the
year 12
„ new children placed during 1944 1
„ children daily minded during 1944 5
„ children daily minded at the end of the year 5
(H) CIVIL DEFENCE.
Number of Circulars from Ministry of Health, Ministry
of Home Security, London Region, Middlesex County
Council, and miscellaneous received in. Health Department
153
Number of letters sent to Doctors in. charge of First Aid
Posts re medical matters 6
Number of instructions sent to Depot Superintendents 111
Number of letters sent to Sisters-in-Charge of First Aid
Posts 103
The constantly changing personnel of Civil Defence, together
with the many circulars received, continued to mean much administrative
detail. With regard to personnel, the scrutiny of wages
sheets, sickness and annual leave records, personnel returns re
nominations, resignations, transfers, etc., the provision of statistics
for the Civil Defence Committee and the County Council, the
employment of part-time personnel, their hours and rota of duty,
the various returns required, Civil Nursing Reserve uniform replacements,
reimbursing of fares to personnel for travelling
expenses for their hospital and scabies clinics duties, all meant
much routine organisation throughout the year. It is a pleasure
to record that whatever call was put upon the Casualty Services
it was answered immediately and efficiently; and the strain during
the flying-bomb and rocket periods was not light. Everyone
acted in the most commendable manner.
With a view to keeping first-aid training up to standard, a
local first-aid refresher course, on the same lines as that run by
the Group Training School, for all whole-time Civil Defence personnel
who had already obtained their preliminary certificate was
commenced. The instructors were nominated from the Ambulance
and Rescue Service personnel who had already a Group School
instructor's certificate. Each class was to be held on alternate
days for two weeks, and on the conclusion of the course the
County Medical Officer had agreed to set an examination through
Group School instructors, and for a certificate to be issued by
them to those personnel passing the examination. By this means
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