Gasproof Room for Every Home
GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
FOR BRITONS.
United Pres 3 Association —By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 5.
The News-Chronicle says the Home Office is shortly distributing 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 cau be excluded and states that a room ten feet square could accommodate five people without ventilation for twelve hours.
It instructs householders to equip refuges with candles, matches, a hammer, nails, string, rags, scissors, an electric torch, brown paper, airtight food containers, tables, chairs, disinfectant, a wasliscand, 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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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 236, 6 October 1936, Page 7
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