The dictionary also included some tables and charts which are reproduced below:
- Civil Defence Corps Organisation
- Report Channels
- Duties of DCO and Staff
- Casualty Data
- Standards of Protection
- Recognised CD Abbreviations
Civil Defence Corps Organisation
Report Channels
First Bomb or Flare
Warden or Spotter—Post—Control Centre—Zone.
Fire
Warden (or anyone observing Fire)—Fire Service.
Incident resulting in Local Area of Damage
1. Warden—Post—Control Centre—CD Depot (for despatch of
skeleton services). Zone.*
2. Warden or DCO—Post— Control Centre—CD Depot (for despatch
of additional services). Zone*
3. DCO—Post—Control Centre (for further services and for technical
assistance). Zone*
(Note: The above channels are for when communications function normally. In cases where there are minor breakdowns of communications, Wardens and DCOs may, if necessary, send reports to adjacent Posts, to Area HQ, or direct to Control Centre, whichever is easiest to reach.)
Complete Breakdown of Communications
Warden or DCO—Area HQ—Control Centre.
Crash Raid or Atom Bomb
Warden or DCO—Area HQ (Area Control Officer becomes Controller's
deputy, and may communicate direct with Zone if necessary).
For Mobile Forces (Reserves)
Controller (or Area Control Officer in special circumstances)—Zone
(and Region if necessary).
* Zone will be informed by Control Centre if important structures (certain listed buildings, bridges, etc.) are damaged, if additional services are required on loan from other Divisions, and in various other special circumstances (e.g., the presence of persistent war gas, agents of biological warfare, etc.).
Duties of DCO and Staff
Damage Control Officer
- On arrival at his area of damage, the DCO establishes his HQ (upwind of incident) and informs his Post of its precise location (Post will inform Control Centre).
- Makes contact with patrolling Wardens and obtains from them general report of situation.
- Instructs Casualty Warden to establish a loading ground for casualties.
- Instructs available Wardens in their various tasks, and instructs services on arrival where they shall park their vehicles and in what part of the area they are to work.
- Makes reconnaissances of area as required.
- Maintains despatch of reports to Post as they are required. (If any services ordered do not arrive within 30 minutes, he re-orders them by Supplementary Report.)
Note: A DCO is distinguishable at any area of damage by the colour of his helmet, which is white with green, amber, and red bands. His HQ is marked by a green, amber, and red pennant in daylight and by a single amber lamp at night.)
Casualty Warden
- Establishes and marks loading ground for casualties (indicated by white board with red, amber and green "target" in daylight, and triangle of three red lamps at night.
- Keeps detailed record on log sheet of all casualties, giving name, where found, destination and nature of injury of each.
- Checks over Census Cards with DCO's Clerk.
- Establishes temporary mortuary, if required.
- Finds suitable under-cover accommodation for Mobile Aid Post, if required.
DCO's Clerk
- Keeps detailed log of arrival and departure of all services.
- Prepares all Reports and has them initialled by DCO and despatched.
- With Casualty Warden, checks over all Census Cards.
- Takes charge in the absence of the DCO from his HQ.
Casualty Data
The figures given below are necessarily very approximate, and are based upon the assumption that people will be in reasonable cover (i.e. their homes, ordinary public buildings, etc.). The figures will be lower where shelter facilities are good; higher where people have been caught in the open without warning, or have neglected to take any cover at all.
Casualties per ton HE |
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| Area | Types of buildings | People per acre | Killed | Injured | Total |
| Built-up | Flats, large unframed buildings | 50-70 | 20 | 60 | 80 |
| Built-up | Small houses, closely spaced | 30-50 | 12 | 36 | 48 |
| Built-up | Small houses, average spaced | 20-30 | 8 | 24 | 32 |
| Built-up | Small houses, widely spaced | 10-20 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
| Rural | 2-5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Casualty Proportions |
Dead to wounded - 1:3 Wounded and requiring emergency aid (per 100) - 15 Hospitalisation (per 100 cases):
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Possible Ambulance Requirements |
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| (Ambulance, 4 stretcher cases; Car, 3 sitting cases) | ||
| Casualties* | Ambulances | Cars |
| Up to 8 | 1 | - |
| 9-14 | 1 | 1 |
| 15-22 | 2 | 1 |
| 23-30 | 3 | 1 |
| 31-36 | 3 | 2 |
| 37-42 | 3 | 3 |
| 43-50 | 4 | 3 |
| 51-58 | 5 | 3 |
| 59-66 | 6 | 3 |
| 67-72 | 6 | 4 |
| 73-80 | 7 | 4 |
| 81-86 | 7 | 5 |
| 87-94 | 8 | 5 |
| 95-100 | 8 | 6 |
| * Total number of casualties (major and minor) at area of damage. | ||
Standards of Protection
(1) High Explosive (500 Ib. medium-case bomb bursting 50 ft. away).
| Material | Direction of Burst | |
| Level | Overhead | |
| Mild steel plate | 1½in. | 5/16in. |
| Reinforced concrete | 12in. | 6in. |
| Brickwork or masonry | 13½in. | |
| Unreinforced concrete | 15in. | |
| Ballast or broken stone | 24in. | 18in. |
| Earth or sand | 30in. | 18in. |
| Solidly stacked timber | 36in. | |
Note: A well-built two-storey house should provide adequate protection on the ground floor, so long as the ceiling of any refuge room is strutted to withstand debris load in the event of collapse.
(2) Gamma Flash (to reduce gamma flash below a concentration which would be injurious to health):
- Concrete - 20 in.
- Earth - 30 in.
Recognised CD Abbreviations
| AMB | Ambulance | QRCD | Qualified Reconnaissance Officer, Civil Defence |
| CWD | Civilian War Dead | QRP | Qualified Reconnaissance Officer, Police |
| D/C | Decontamination | RP | Rescue Party |
| DCO | Damage Control Officer | RP/E | Repair Party Electricity |
| DPC | Director Public Cleansing | RP/G | Repair Party Gas |
| DPL | Dry Pipe Line | RP/R | Repair Party Roads |
| EWS | Static Water | RP/TELE | Repair Party Telephones |
| GIO | Gas Identification Officer | RP/W | Repair Party Water |
| IB | Incendiary Bomb | SAO | Special Action Officer |
| MAP | Mobile Aid Post | SRO | Station Rescue Officer |
| M/C | Motor Car | UFM | Unfiltered Water Mains |
| PGP | Poison Gas Persistent | UXB | Unexploded Bomb |
| PGNP | Poison Gas Non-persistent |