Organisation of air raid casualties services / issued by the Home Office (Air Raid Precautions Department).
- Date:
- 1938
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Organisation of air raid casualties services / issued by the Home Office (Air Raid Precautions Department). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Room A.2.—In a large Post the first aid room should be capable of accommodating six stretchers and six sitting cases, requiring about 600 sq. ft. For four stretchers and four sitting cases in a small Post about 400 sq. ft. would be required. Warm water is necessary in this room, together with some water- boiling apparatus for sterilising instruments; but running water is not essential if it is not already laid on. Shelving or cupboards would be needed for dressings and medicaments. It would be advisable to have curtains or screens available to screen off a small section of the room, for gassed patients for whom the main treat- ment might be rest. (It is to be remembered that there may be gassed casualties who are not contaminated with persistent gas.) ‘It would save staff if this first aid room could receive also the wounded admitted as contaminated to Section B, after passing through the cleansing treatment. In that event its size should be suitably increased. A slop sink or lavatory should be accessible from this room for emptying pans, &c., of patients under treatment. Room A.3.—This waiting room would be for patients whose wounds have been dressed. It should be large enough to accommodate those waiting for ambulances and to permit those who are to be discharged to rest for a time before proceeding home. There should also be space for a record clerk at a table. : In a large Post, 550 sq. ft. is suggested, for eight stretchers and 24 sitting cases. In a small Post about 350 sq. ft. should accommodate half this number, A w.c. should be accessible to patients in this room. Section B—First Aid (Contaminated Casualties). Fig. 2 shows a diagrammatic lay-out of this Section, which should consist of four rooms, the last two of which can be combined with the last two - rooms of Section A. ENTRANCE. # | EXIT AIR PARTITIONS REAGHING TO CEILING SHOWN AIR Lock CURTAINS OR LOW PARTITIONS SHOWN —------- LOC? SINKS SHOWN “S. fo] [Ss] [3] : : | ROOM Bul. Ro0 Be... ROOM B.S. | . ROOM B& RECEPTION & WASHING & FIRST AID DRESSING & UNDRESSING. BLEACH TREATMENT (S00 $a FT) WAITING (300 SQ FT) 3 | (300 SQ FY) i (a50 SQ FT) AIR LOCK ‘. H : ISLOFR W.C SINK Fig. 2. Lay-out of Section B—First Aid (Contaminated Casualties) for one sex | Sizes are given for a large Post. The shading shows portions in which gas vapour might collect.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32174779_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
