CIVILIAN GAS MASKS

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1938, Page 11

CIVILIAN GAS MASKS

TESTS IN ENGLAND. LONDON, August 22. The Home Office claims that the 40,000,000 gas masks stored for civil use are efficient. The statement follows the sensational test in a gas chamber from which only one person emerged unscathed. The test was organised by the “Daily Txpress.” Fourteen men and women- wore masks selected at random from stocks at an air raid precautions centre. Seven of them tottered gasping from the gas chamber in Jess than the test period of 10’minutes. “The tests were carried out in heavy concentrations of arsenical smoke,” the Home Office points out. “The smoke was confined in a gas chamber, not released* put of doors. “Such concentrations would not be experienced in the open under war conditions. Civilian gas masks have been tested against the .highest concentrations of gas, including chemicals, likely to he experienced during an attack;”