RAID SHELTERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 8

RAID SHELTERS

F.EORGANISATION IN BRITAIN. MEASURES TO SAFEGUARD HEALTH. I i (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. January 4. Aiderman Charles Key. Labour M.P.. for Bromley and Bow. who has been prominent in the organisation of civil defence in the Poplar area, which suffered heavily in the earlier German air-raids, has been appointed one of the commissioners for the London civil defence region and will take over reI sponsibility for the shelters from Ad- ! miral Sir Edward Evans, who resumes | his general duties as regional commis- ; Goner. I Sir Edward Gowers becomes senior , regional commissioner in London in place of Captain Euan Wallace, who has resigned on the ground of illhealth. At the same time it is announced that in future, while the Ministry of Home Security will provide shelters, their management will bo under the Ministry of Health, which will be responsible for public health, sanitation j admission and order. Aiderman K>\v. ■ it is believed, intends to appoint some] i qualified woman to give her whole) I time to the shelter problems of women ■ J and children. This reorganisation of the control of i ■shelter accommodation follows Mr ! Churchill’s assurance to the House of ■Commons on the eve of the Christmas I recess that organisation and improve-) : mem of shelter conditions would be ! the first task of the Government all Home. Since they must expect a con-; { linuation of the Nazi frightfulness by ; night those who have had to grapple I with the problems of mitigating to the i utmost the conditions under which the, people would endure these assaults) 'were. Mi' Churchill said, as much in: , the front line as the armoured columns I in Libya, "'i'he Times" calls the changes good) I news for the shelterers and adds that '; henceforward safety and health will) | both be under one control. It links the | I changes with the new powers taken by ■ the Govamnioi)! only a few days ago) I to chiS'k abuse affecting health and j public order in shelters.