AIR RAID REFUGES
WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED IN BRITAIN Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 5. 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 on the subject of choosing a refuge room from which gases are excluded:, and states that a room 10ft square will accommodate five people witliout 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, blamkets, mattresses, eiderdowns, q wireless set, a gramophone, and a fire extinguisher, or sand with a shovel.
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Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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142AIR RAID REFUGES Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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