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Summary of Lectures and Demonstrations given or arranged by the
Staff of the Public Health Department.
1. Anti-Gas.
35 courses (280 lectures and demonstrations), involving 1,437 Casualty
Services Personnel.
6 lectures to staff of Isolation Hospital and Maternity Home. (This
training was later taken over by the C. D. Training Officer).
2. Basic Training (Anti-Gas, Incendiary Bomb Control, etc.).
Classes held in conjunction with Wardens, etc. :—524 Casualty Services
Personnel attending.
3. First Aid.
(а) Casualty Services Personnel.—37 courses (272 lectures and demonstrations),
involving 1,263 personnel. (A number of the volunteers
were already trained in First Aid, and members of the S.J.A.B. or
B.R.C.S.).
(b) Depot Personnel (Ambulance Drivers, Attendants, Stretcher Bearers,
Rescue and Demolition Parties).—22 full courses (132 lectures and
demonstrations) to 1,250 personnel.
(c) Wardens Service.—30 full courses, 24 short courses (276 lectures) to
3,080 Wardens.
(d) Dr. Noordin, the temporary part-time Assistant Medical Officer of
Health for Casualty Services, gave 72 courses (432 lectures) on First
Aid to the Depot personnel. These were to meet the revised training
syllabus.
(e) 10 courses (60 lectures) for the Auxiliary Nursing Services, of whom
79 attended.
(/) Classes in First Aid were arranged at three schools for teachers, and
at one school for Home Nursing.
4. 11 courses (62 lectures) in both Anti-Gas and First Aid were arranged
for the general public, at which a total of 1,300 attended.
Note.—During 1941, part of 1943 and 1944, the training was much
affected through enemy action.
There were originally 8 First Aid Posts, one Mobile Unit and two
Light Mobile Units. One Post, King George Hospital, was taken over by
the Hospital for the Essex County Council on 16th June, 1941, another,
Valentines, was closed in June, 1944; two others, Mayesbrook and Fairlop,
on 28th March, 1945, and one, Dr. Barnardo's, on 2nd June, 1945.
The whole Service was officially disbanded on 1st July, 1945.