British medical journal . to act as stretcher-bearers in Fio 3 —Ground plan of aresimcntal aid post shown in elevationin li« 4 On the left (ol is a bunk for two orderlies, each havingbis stretcher bed; ne.\t is the bunk, with a stre teller bedand table In the centre compartment running from entrance toexit arc trestles to support a stretcher while a case is beingdresse 1 some tables and shelves for bottles and instrunients, andtwo silting benches On the right is an empty spice for storingt-e kits o( patients, and Ijeyond are sliUts, each to bold threeatietchcr patients, in tiers (
British medical journal . to act as stretcher-bearers in Fio 3 —Ground plan of aresimcntal aid post shown in elevationin li« 4 On the left (ol is a bunk for two orderlies, each havingbis stretcher bed; ne.\t is the bunk, with a stre teller bedand table In the centre compartment running from entrance toexit arc trestles to support a stretcher while a case is beingdresse 1 some tables and shelves for bottles and instrunients, andtwo silting benches On the right is an empty spice for storingt-e kits o( patients, and Ijeyond are sliUts, each to bold threeatietchcr patients, in tiers ( .\ curtain seiaratcs them fromthe centre comiiartmcnt. Gasproof curtains are mlled up abovethe doors ready to let down nn a gas alarm, and on the floornear tlia exit is a cylinder of oxygen and a eprayiug machiue andEome bottles of anti-gas solution. a gas attack, providing for all openings a blanket screensoaked ill an autigas solution which can be lowered intoolace at a moments notice. -?^Iso. if the ac^ommodatino. , ; ; a n- ELfi 1 1 4.—Elevation of the regimental aid post sliown in Fig. ) for stretchers for patients are seen on the left (one inpositioul. and the bunk and stretcher bed on the tbe middle is a tiestle to supixirt a stretcher wiiile the case isbeing dressed, and near it a bench for bottles and height for work (about 6 ft. 6 in.) is secured by slightlydeepening tbe tiench, inflow of water being prevr^nted by a damand sump pit. The floor is concrete; the roof, concrete, sand-bags and earth. Light is supplied by acetylene lamps. the proportion of two to each half-company, or sixteen inall. His total command therefore consists of twenty-ninemen, all of whom he trains in stretcher-bearer and first-aid work, but otherwise employs as he finds to the specific duties mentioned he usually postsmost of his men along the trenches held by his unit inorder that they may be ready to attend th
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