The Archive · 1939

Labels for Patients

Patients will be labelled with different coloured tickets for resuscitation, operation or evacuation wards. In 'a "quiet room" shell-shocked people will be soothed by a special staff, including a psychiatrist.

As soon as patients can be moved they will be taken by ambulance trains and buses to the base hospital somewhere in Kent to make room for victims of the next air raid.

Only 85 of the 135 beds reserved for ordinary patients at Guy's are occupied, though the hospital stands ready to take any who wish to come. formally returned to the Reich. That night Hitler paid a surprise visit to Saarbruecken, and English listeners heard over the wireless the trumpets which greeted his entry into the Town Hall, the harsh. triumphant Germans——" with which the speech opened, and the declaration that there now remained no cause of dispute between Germany and France.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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