Delmar, July 11 - Delmar to further
its preparedness program has Organized an emergency medical unit, under the
direction of Dr. S. H. Lynch and Dr. H. E. Lecates, both local physicians.
The new organization has received
permission from the Wicomico School Board to use The Delmar Maryland High
School as headquarters. The function of the unit is to treat persons with minor
injuries.
The staff has been appointed as
follows: Mrs. W. W. Hastings and Mrs. Mable Venables, directors, Mrs.Elizabeth
Conaway, nurse, registrar and informant, Mrs. Frances Hastings, and the Boy
Scouts will serve as messenger boys.
The first meeting of the new unit' will be
held at the Delmar Fire House next Tuesday, at 3 p. m. Anyone interested and
especially those who have taken the First Aid Course or the Home Nursing Course
are requested to attend and help make surgical dressings to be used at the
local casualty station.
Old sheets, pillow cases and towels are among
the articles needed to make dressings. Anyone who has a folding army cot they
wish to lend for use in the casualty station should label it and leave it at
the Fire House or call Everett Hutchinson, local coordinator.
above from the Salisbury Times 11 July 1942
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