BRITISH CHILDREN
LAROE NUMBERS BACK IN LONDON
GOVERNMENT PERTURBED.
EFFORTS TO MAKE PARENTS CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received ThiS'Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, October 17. The parents of 190,000 children have decided to let them risk spending the long winter nights in London air raid shelters. About 140,000 children who have returned to London are between 5 and 14 years of age and about 50,000 are below the age of five years. The Ministry of Health, which is very perturbed at their return, is beginning a campaign to make parents change their minds. Officials point out that 500,000 children drifted back to London last year, many of whom unnecessarily lost their lives. The authorities are also worried about juvenile health under shelter conditions, in stuffy tube stations. The parents say they cannot feed and clothe their children, as well as pay their contribution to the Government for their upkeep in the reception areas. It is pathetic to see healthy, happy children, who have lost their war-worn look in the evacuated areas, now playing in the bombarded areas and saying: “London will not be blitzed again.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 5
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