Description

Description:

The casualty lists are arranged by date of incident and give the names, ages and addresses (or the unit in the case of service personnel) of casualties under the heading of the mortuary (deceased), hospital (seriously injured) or first aid post (slightly injured) where they were dealt with.

At the end of each raid casualty list there are Casualty Analysis Sheets which analyses the figures in three ways:

1. By place of casualty: 1) shelters - Anderson, brick, concrete, communal, public basement, public trenches, other public type, factory, office or shop; 2) private dwelling houses; 3) any other building; 4) in the street or other open place

2. By cause of casualty: 1) direct or virtually direct hit by bomb; 2) bomb splinters; 3) blast from bomb; 4)falling or flying debris; 5) glass splinters; 6) gas; 7) fire; 8) overcrowding, panic, shock etc.; 9) aircraft fire; 10) machine gun bullets; 11) other defined cause; 12) cause or causes unknown

3. Nature of casualty; 1) killed or dead when the particulars recorded; 2) flesh wounds; 3) injury to eyes; 4) injury to legs or foot; 6) injury to head; 7) injury to face; 8) injury to spinal column; 9) injury to chest; 10) injury to abdomen; 11) injury to pelvis; 12) multiple injuries; 13) injury due to gas; 14) any other defined injury; 15) nervous prostration

In each category figures are given for men, women and children, distinguishing those dead, seriously injured and lightly injured