The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office.

Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ra A ae SORA RC WHAT TO DOIF THE HOUSE IS DAMAGED At once put on your respirator. If you have to go out of your refuge-room, seek refuge in another room or in another building.. If you have to go out of doors keep on your respirator, and wear a mackintosh and goloshes or gum boots if you have them. Avoid all damp splashes on the ground that might be gas. If anyone is injured, a message should be sent to the warden’s post, or the nearest first aid party or post. Until help comes act according to the instructions in Section 5, at the end of the book. HOW TO AVOID INJURY FROM MUSTARD GAS Mustard gas, whether in the form of liquid or of the vapour which the liquid gives off, will injure any part of the body with which it comes in contact. It also “ contaminates ” clothing, or other objects exposed to it, making them dangerous to have | hear you or to touch until they have been “ decontaminated.” If you have come in contact with the liquid or vapour of mustard change all your clothing as soon as possible, put it right outside the house, and wash yourself thoroughly with soap and water. Your shoes should be taken off before entering the house and left outside. Any outer garment which has actually touched liquid gas should be taken off immediately. : To be of use, the washing and changing must be done within twenty minutes at the outside. Take these precautions yourself if you can take them quickly ; if not, go to the nearest first aid post. If liquid gas has been in contact with your skin, wash that part of yourself immediately with soap and water, then change and wash as described above. If you cannot take these measures af once, 80 to the nearest first aid post straight away. | If you have been actually splashed with liquid gas or have passed through an area which has been splashed with it, go to a first aid post for further treatment after taking the precautions described above. Bi. Ek