| Description | Large bundle of Air Raid Precautions (ARP) papers and correspondence.
Includes: extensive handwritten notes and calculations concerning ARP expenditure; summary of ARP circular no. 276/1939 for requisitioned, hired or borrowed vehicles; Ministry of Home Security, ARP Department, circulars, Nos. 59/1939, 275/1939, 340/1939, 29/1940, 31/1940, 55/1940, 58/1940, 81/1940, 93/1940, 179/1940, 234/1941, 85/1942, 98/1942, 124/1942, 134/1942, 213/1942, 235/1942, 78/1944 (1939-1944); various tables of expenditure in the Whiston rural district, expenditure claims for ARP and Civil Nursing Reserve activity and associated correspondence with Lancashire County Council, the Ministry of Home Security and Civil Defence, Office of the Regional Commissioner, Manchester; Ministry of Health circulars regarding emergency medical services and transfer of deceased patients between hospitals (no. 1941, Dec 1939) and emergency services: local purchases of supplies (no. 2393, May 1941); Local War Instructions: Arrangement of Headings under which action would be required (12 pages, c. 1939); correspondence with ARP Department, Preston, regarding pay during illness for ARP Personnel (Oct 1939), clothing for rescue parties and decontamination squads (Nov 1941 and Dec 1942), rescue party equipment (Jan 1942) and pay of whole-time ARP Personnel (Jun 1944 and Jan 1945); Statements of Actual Expenditure (1939-40); Provision of Public Shelters, Final Expenditure (Nov 1943). |