Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - communications from Ministry of...

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: changes of ARP District boundaries [not Bedfordshire]; flooding of standard steel shelters; instructions for detecting unexploded bombs; disposal of unexploded parachute mines; equipment for Three Counties Hospital, Arlesey;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: reports of casualties in air raid shelters; use of school shelters by general public outside school hours; awards for gallantry; information regarding air raid casualties; Rescue Party accommodation in Dunstable; requisition of 100 High Street, Bedford; modified street lighting; public shelters in Cranfield;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: cost of maintenance of Poor Law and Public Health Institution patients removed under Emergency Hospital Scheme; accommodation and billeting of hospital staff; refugees from enemy attack; re-occupation of unoccupied houses by those made homeless by enemy action; transfer of mothers and children from London; unorganised evacuation of homeless from London; emergency water supplies to hospitals; war damage to hospitals; increase in number of whole-time personnel at Ampthill First Aid Post; expenditure regarding Battlesden House Maternity Home;

- teaching of First Aid in schools;

- use of school refuge rooms for teaching purposes;

- street lighting in Bedford;

- use of Langford Ivy Leaf Club as First Aid Point and Wardens' Post;

- use of Harrold Church Room as Wardens' Post and First Aid Point;

- use of 27 Park Road East, Bedford as Government Evacuation Store;

- use of Kempston Church Hall as Air Raid Precautions personnel sleeping accommodation;

- provision of public shelters in Bedford Road, Cranfield;

- air raid shelters in Haynes;

- report on enemy raid on 26/27 Sep at RAF Cranfield, RAF Henlow [three dead], Aspley Guise and Lower Stondon;

- recruitment of volunteers;

- shelter at Seer's premises, 3/5 Harpur Street, Bedford;

- lights at RAF Cranfield;

- air raid shelters at Cranfield;

- Sharnbrook Mobile Unit

[ex W/ARPP 24]

acc. 6514