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21. Detail the necessary additional hands to cope with serving food to evacuees and washing up. The quickest method of issuing food is to hand out plated meals.
22. Anticipate a constant requirement for hot and cold drinks and biscuits between meals and during the embarkation process.
23. If the ship is at 'evacuation stations' for a long time it may be necessary to adjust meal times for the ship's company or issue snacks (along the lines of quarters messing). In any case, boats' crews and others working long hours are likely to seek additional sustenance. If possible, issue some snacks to each boat in advance.
24. Identify low-endurance items on board which should be avoided, if possible, when compiling menus for evacuees.
25. Keep separate White Lists for items which are used for evacuees as this will help to identify the amount of money being expended upon evacuees.
record of the numbers fed at each meal should be compiled in order to support claims for DMR (in accordance with BR5 Chapter 36).
26. Collect all urns from around the ship into one central place ready for use.
27. Consider the provision of food for young children (eg pureed foods) and milk for young babies.
28. A supply of cigarettes may be helpful to calm evacuees who have just embarked. However, it may be necessary to place a number of 'No Smoking' notices between decks in order to discourage smoking in feeding and accommodation areas.
For large numbers of evacuees the only suitable space for feeding may be on the upper deck (depending upon the local climate), in which case it will help to rope off the queueing route so that evacuees are channelled past the serving area in an orderly manner.
30. Supply Department personnel are often employed in First Aid Parties. Should the First Aid Parties be required for use at 'evacuation stations' it may be necessary to arrange for some S&S ratings to be released in order to meet the feed/serving work load.
31. The circumstances in which evacuees find themselves may mean that some of them are infested with fleas or that their baggage contains insects (cockroaches, etc). Where possible, baggage should be kept on the upper-deck and staff should be warned to watch out for insects. Arrangements should be made for bedding, clothing and furnishings to be throughly wash or dry-cleaned after the evacuation operation.
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32. Bedding. Prepare camp beds if available, although priority for the use of spare mattresses and camp beds should be given to casualties and invalids. It will normally be sufficient for most evacuess to sleep on the deck with a blanket (and pillow). The storeroom stocks of bedding may be boosted by withdrawing some bedding from messdecks and cabins if it is not needed there. If there is a shortage of camp beds it may be possible to improvise with privately owned 'sun loungers'.
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