AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS
GUIDE FOR PRIVATE HOMES BOOKLETS TO BE DISTRIBUTED LONDON, Oct. 5. (Received Oct. 6, at 1 a.m.) The News Chronicle says the Home Office will shortly distribute millions of copies of a booklet intended to standardise air raid precautions in private homes. It contains advice or/ the subject of choosing a refuge room from which gases are excluded, and states that a room 10 feet square will accommodate five people without ventilation for 12 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 of sanitary conveniences, drinking water, tinned foods, plates, cups, books, writing materials, a heavy dark curtain, blankets, mattresses, eiderdowns, a wireless set, a gramophone, and a fire extinguisher or sand with a shovel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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144AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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