DRIFTING BACK TO LONDON
Many Evacuated Children
LONDON, October 17. The parents of 190,000 children have decided to let them risk spending the long winter nights in the London airraid shelters. About 140,000 children who have returned to London are between file ages of 5 and 14, and about 50,060 are under the age of live. The Ministry of Health, which is very perturbed at their return, is beginning a campaign to make parents change their minds. Officials point out. that 500,000 children drifted back to Loudon last year, and that many of them unnecessarily lost their lives. The authorities are also worried about juvenile health under shelter conditions in the stuffy tube stations. Parents say that they cannot feed and clothe their children as well as pay their contribution to the Government for their upkeep in the reception areas. It is pathetic to see healthy and happy children, who lost their warworn look in the evacuation areas, now playing in bomb-damaged areas aud saying that London will not be blitzed again.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 21, 20 October 1941, Page 8
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172DRIFTING BACK TO LONDON Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 21, 20 October 1941, Page 8
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