BOOKLET ABOUT AIR RAIDS
PRECAUTIONS IN BRITAIN
ELABORATE INSTRUCTIONS TO HOUSEHOLDERS
(UNITED PESS3 ASSOCIATION—COPTHIQHT.)
(Received October 6, 12.30 a.m.)
LONDON, October 5,
The “News-Chronicle” says the Home Office will shortly distribute millions, of copies of a booklet intended to standardise air raid precautions in private homes. It contains advice on the subject of choosing a refuge room from which gases can be excluded, and states that a room 10 feet square will accommodate five persons without ventilation for 12 hours.
The booklet instructs householders to equip the refuges with candles, matches, a hammer and nails, string, rags, scissors, an electric torch, brown paper, airtight food containers, tables, chairs, disinfectant, a washstand, a screen for privacy, sanitary conveniences, drinking water, tinned foods, plates and cups, books, writing materials, a heavy dark curtain, blankets, mattresses, eiderdowns, a wireless set, a gramophone, and a fire extinguisher or sand with a shovel.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21906, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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