Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - ambulances received from British...

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- ambulances received from British Red Cross Society;

- resignation of Arthur Basen as Air Raid Precautions Officer & Sub-Controller of Central Area;

- Casualty Services training scheme;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding public shelters on roadway verge, Harrowden Road, and plot of land adjacent to 91 Harrowden Road, Bedford; painting Air Raid Precautions vehicles in standard colour; transfer of Bedford Borough Air Raid Precautions offices to a new location; local Civil Defence training facilities for military personnel; gas exercises; casualty returns; demolition by explosives; Air Raid Wardens - deferment arrangements for whole time personnel ; Rescue Parties premature ceasing of work; Decontamination Squads; use of Air Raid Precautions ambulances for Home Guard casualties;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: First Aid Post at St.Mary's Methodist Church schoolroom, Cauldwell Street, Bedford; calling up of women for National Service; medical attendance in public air raid shelters; deaths amongst transferred sick etc.; accommodation for transferred war workers and families; distribution of gifts of duty free tobacco and chocolate to sick and wounded service personnel at St.Peter's Emergency Hospital, Bedford; First Aid Post at Methodist Schoolroom, Bedford Road, Kempston; tanks for fire fighting at St.Peter's Hospital, Bedford;

- appointment of County Social Welfare Officer;

- secondment of police personnel for Air Raid Precautions;

- compensation rent for Sandy Baptist Schoolroom;

- Woburn Mobile Unit;

- proposed delegation of functions regarding public shelters;

- Air Raid Precautions in Wootton;

- Wardens' Post at 110 Dunstable Street, Ampthill;

- Wardens' Post at 32 Kingsbury Avenue, Dunstable;

- Scheme for Beds & Hunts Sub-Area assistance by military to civil powers in the event of an air raid in Dunstable;

- proposed use of Odell Mansion as Air Raid Precautions store;

- accommodation for refugees from air attack.

[ex W/ARPP 33]

acc. 6523