The Mobile Hospitals of the British Red Cross and the Order of St. John and Their Role in the Rotterdam Typhoid Epidemic 1945
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THE HOSPITALS AND THEIR PURPOSE During the planning for the invasion of Mainland Europe in 1944, (D-Day), one consideration was the possibility of there being large numbers of Civilian casualties, which together with the possibility of severe damage to the local Hospitals, might lead to the Military hospitals being unable to cope. The idea therefore arose of creating small 50 bed mobile Hospitals, to
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