REGULATIONS IN CASE OF FIRE. 



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2. The Officers and Servants are forthwith to give their CHAP. IV. 

 attendance and utmost assistance, and the Principal Librarian, Re 8 ulat "' nB 



i 'in case ot 



or in his absence the senior Officer who shall be in the Mu- accident by 



fire 



seum, shall give such orders as in his judgment will best 

 conduce to extinguish the fire. 



3. Notice of the breaking out of a fire shall be imme- 

 diately sent to the nearest Police Station, and to the next 

 Station of the London Fire Brigade. 



4. The Clerk of the Works shall give immediate directions 

 and assistance for putting the Fire-engines to work, and shall 

 also send to the District Turncock. 



5. The Serjeant of the Guard to send to the nearest 

 Barracks for a reinforcement. 



6. As early notice as possible shall be sent to such Trus- 

 tees as live within a reasonable distance, as also, to the Archi- 

 tect, and to the Museum Engine Maker. 



7. The Police Inspector, upon arrival, shall be requested 

 to send to the two Stations nearest to his own district or 

 section, for extra assistance to keep the Public away from the 

 entrance of the Museum. 



8. Two Porters shall be stationed at the Great Gate, assisted 

 by such number of Police as the Inspector may deem neces- 

 sary, with orders to admit persons belonging to the Museum, 

 and other persons they know, who may be of assistance, such 

 as Workmen employed in the building ; but peremptorily to 

 exclude all Strangers not necessary to work the Engines. 



9. All Instructions or Advice from unqualified persons to 

 be disregarded. The Workmen to look in the first instance 

 to the directions of the Officers of the Institution only, till 

 the arrival of the Superintendent or Engineer of the Fire 

 Brigade, to whom the Officers will consign the direction of 

 subsequent arrangements and exertions. 



10. Should it so happen, previous to the arrival of the 

 Superintendent, that the fire has got beyond the power of the 

 hose on the Fire-cocks, attention to be immediately turned to 

 shutting up the part where the fire is as much as possible. 



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