Medicine: Gigantic Preparations

If New York City, a fat, river-marked target, is ever bombed, how will the city handle its casualties? Has any system been laid out against the day of attack?

Familiar with other phases of New York's well-publicized civilian defense scheme, many a citizen has asked such questions about the one missing but vital detail. Finally they got an answer. New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals Edward M. Bernecker revealed his gigantic preparations in a speech before a United Hospital Fund conference:

> Each of the city's 85 casualty hospitals has an emergency medical...

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