200,000 More Beds Available Under New Plan London, June 11.
Speaking on emergency hospital accommodation this afternoon, the Minister of Health said that by sending suitable cases to their homes and by crowding up existing buildings, 200,000 hospital beds would be made available for the treatment of casualties within 24 hours of the outbreak of war. Another 50000 beds would be provided in non-hospital buildings.
These would not be enough, however, and he had, therefore, given the beginning to a scheme for providing 40,000 more beds, mostly in hutted extensions to existing hospitals but partly in a small number of complete hospitals in hut-menís Wireless through Reuter.
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