CIVILIANS SLEEP
AIR RAIDS’ EFFECT. LONDON, July 1. Because the night air raids cause millions of people to leave their beds and seek air-raid shelters, increasing attention is being paid in England to the importance of sleep for workers. It is recognised that the German raids are partly an attack on the nerves of the man in the street, and that if this attack succeeds if will cause a serious slowing down in production and efficiency besides a strain on morale.
Therefore, advice is being given through the Press and the radio by doctors and thpse who were bombed in Spain, Finland, France, and Belgium. The public is being told to sleep as much as possible in the early part of the night. Because of the long twilight, the German raids seldom start before midnight.
The public is also being advised to practise dozing off at odd hours during daytime leisure, and to take the maximum rest at week-ends.
Some persons have solved the problem by fitting up air-raid shelters like ships’ cabins.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 July 1940, Page 8
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