HOME REFUGES
AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS
ADVICE IN BRITAIN
United Press Association—By Eleetrlo Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 5. The "News Chronicle" says that 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 people without ventilation for twelve hours.
It instructs householders to equip the refuges with candles, matches, a hammer, 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, cups, books, writing materials, a heavy dark curtain, blankets, mattresses, eiderdowns, a wireless set or gramophone, a fire extinguisher, or sand with a shovel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1936, Page 10
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139HOME REFUGES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1936, Page 10
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