WW2/AR/C2/152

Agenda papers including, amongst other things: - report of visit to Norwich by County Air Raid Precautions Controller, County Air Raid Precautions Officer, County Medical Officer of Health and County Surveyor following heavy air raids on that city; - communications with Senior Regional Officer regarding: erection of marking and sorting stations at Bedford Sanitary Laundry and Bedford Steam Laundry; increased salaries of Sub-Controllers, Deputy Sub-Controllers etc.; Messenger Service; personnel establishment; review of structural conditions in Bedford and Dunstable; compensation for use of Stratton House, Biggleswade, as Combined Air Raid Precautions Depot; - post blitz arrangements in Bedford; - request by Gas Identification Officer S.G.Harris to be de-reserved so he could joined armed forces; - representation on Civil Defence Comforts Committees; - communications with Ministry of Home Security regarding: Fire Prevention (Government Premises) Order 1942 and Fire Prevention (Business Premises) Order 1942; anti gas drill; balloon defences; - communications with Ministry of Health regarding: Government Evacuation Scheme; gas cleansing leaflet for householders; WVS use of 16 Grove Road, Leighton Buzzard; proposals for placing Battlesden House Emergency Maternity Home on a care and maintenance basis; - reports regarding and communications with Parish Invasion Committees; - proposed Reserve Hospital at Luton Girls High School; - First Aid Party Depot, Wardens' Post and First Aid Point at St.Peter's School, Arlesey; - Wardens' Post, First Aid Point and First Aid Party Depot at 6 High Street, Shefford; - reorganisation of Wardens' Posts in Biggleswade; - accommodation for refugees from air attack. [ex W/ARPP 47]

20 May 1942

From: 1942 To: 1942

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Harris, S.G.,
Women's Voluntary Service

Ministry of Health, Ministry of Home Security, laundries, Air Raid Precautions, invasion committees, gas, civil defence, fire prevention, military balloons, hospitals, Luton Girls High School, First Aid, refugees, air raids over UK, County Surveyor, BEDFORD, BIGGLESWADE, DUNSTABLE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LUTON, SHEFFORD, ARLESEY, BATTLESDEN, Biggleswade Stratton House, Leighton Buzzard Grove Road, Shefford High Street