RAID SHELTERS
OCCUPIED BY MINORITY IN LONDON. NO OUTBREAK OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, (British Official Wireless.), RUGBY. January 7. A census taken in December showed that 5 per cent of the population of the London region occupied the public shelters. 19 per cent were in domestic or communal shelters, and the rest were living in their own homes, according to Sir Wilson Jameson, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Health. In the metropolitan area people vising the public shelters amounted to 8 per cent, and those using domestic and communal shelters 21 per cent. There has been no outbreak of epidemic or infectious diseases in the deep and crowded shelters. Sir Wilson added: "I believe that the dispersal of the child population to the country has had a great deal to do with the low incidence in 1940 of infectious diseases in Britain."
Figures quoted by him for 1940. up to December 14. as compared with the similar period in 1939. showed a decrease in scarlet fever and diphtheria, a slight increase in pneumonia, and a heavy increase in cerobro-spinal fever
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1941, Page 9
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