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

Agenda papers including, amongst other things:

- communications from Ministry of Home Security regarding: maintenance of electric air raid warning sirens; recording and notification of air raid casualties; greyhound race meetings; working after the siren; emergency protection in factories;

- communications from Senior Regional Officer regarding: Mobile Canteens; air raid warnings; unexploded parachute mines; disposal of unexploded bombs; "raiders passed" signal; training of "Jim Crows"; damage to roads and bridges caused by enemy action; co-operation with military authorities; immobilisation of motor vehicles; suspicious signals, lights and flares; salary of Air Raid Precautions Officer, South West Bedfordshire Area; notification of red air raid warnings to schools; modified street lighting in Dunstable; use of basements of 15 Broadway and 94 Midland Road, Bedford, as air raid shelters; use of underground vaults at agricultural engineering works, Leighton Buzzard High Street as public shelters; underground effect of unexploded bombs; domestic surface shelters in Biggleswade;

- communications from Ministry of Health regarding: use of uncanned foods for homeless persons; Civil Nursing Reserve;

evacuation of staff and equipment from hospitals; notification of casualties; Emergency Hospitals Scheme - delay in admission of casualties; evacuation of mothers and children and homeless mothers and children; use of Luton High School for hospital purposes;

- use of Britain Street Schools' kitchens by Dunstable First Aid personnel;

- provision of cleansing stations at Biggleswade, Stotfold and Sandy;

- recruitment of volunteers;

- use of decontamination centres by the military;

- Woburn Ambulance Centre;

- use of Parish Hall, Aspley Guise as Wardens' Post;

- public warning siren at Aspley Heath;

- synchronisation of sirens at Dunstable;

- use of 99 Spring Road, Kempston as a Wardens' Post;

- report on County Combined Exercise;

- report of Public Assistance Officer regarding refugees;

- report on air raid damage on 24/25 Sep in Cranfield, Ridgmont and Aspley Guise

[ex W/ARPP 24]

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