Divorces Increase In England
LONDON, October 7. Divorces in England are increasing steadity, says the “Daily Mail.” Five judges next week will begin hearing 2000 London applications, compared with 797 in the Michaelmas term last year. Assizes all over the country have a further 5000 cases for this term. Evacuation, shelter life and wartime disorganisation are partly the reasons for the increase. The courts in the first year of the war dealt with 8400 petitions. The monthly average dropped from September to last March, probably owing to the bombings, but the increased evacuation and calling up of wives and husbands have now broken up many families.
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Northern Advocate, 8 October 1941, Page 6
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