Operation Disaster — Boston

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THE need for disaster preparedness, especially in a metropolitan community, is clear. A series of naturally occurring disasters — fires, explosions, windstorms and floods — have brought home forcibly the lesson that an unprepared populace can suffer unnecessarily when disaster strikes.1 2 3 4 5 Many agencies, governmental and private, have contributed to our increasing knowledge of disaster and its effects and have helped improve the nation's state of preparedness. The American Medical Association and the Joint Commission for Hospital Accreditation have collaborated to encourage hospitals to make individual plans for disaster management and to test these plans by drills.6 , 7 Under this stimulus the . . .

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