LONDON CHILDREN
POLICY OF EVACUATION. INCREASED FACILITIES OFFERED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. Every second child of the London area is at present accommodated in a country district, and another evacuation plan for the capital has now been announced by the Health Minister, Mr Malcolm MacDonald. The total number of children of school age who have already been evacuated is 464,000 and 428,000 still remain. The present facilities include provision for the evacuation of school children and homeless children of any age with their mothers, but these are to be extended to include mothers with children of any age, whether they are homeless or not. The scheme is applicable in the first instance to certain areas which are the most hard pressed. Mothers in these areas are being asked to register at food and rest centres.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 4
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137LONDON CHILDREN Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 4
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