Summary of reports on Air raid damage for the period 16th - 23rd September, 1940, furnished by the Ministry of Health. Homeless Persons. Figures for the homeless people in rest centres in the London Region on the night of Sunday, 22nd September, 1940, are as follows:- County of London 12,725 Middlesex 1,200 (estimate) East Ham 680 West Ham 600 Essex 5,000 - 6,000 Kent 250 Herts 100 Surrey 35 Croydon 94 Total say, 21,000 The figure of 12,725 for the county of London compares with an estimate of 15,330 of the numbers in rest centres on the morning of 18th September.
- Civil Defence Region
- Region 5: London Region 12: South Eastern (Tunbridge Wells HQ)
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/23/14
- Document Types
- Memorandum Statistical Publication
- File Reference
- CAB 71/23
- Former Department Reference
- ARD(40) 1
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000023.014
- Keywords
- Agricultural Production Agriculture Air Raids Animal Feed Bacon Beef Bomb Damage Butter Canals Cereals Cheese Cocoa Coffee Dairy Dockyards Drainage Eggs Electricity Factories Fish Flour Food Supplies Fruit Homelessness Infrastructure London Underground Margarine Meat Milk Munitions Industry Nuts Oil Seeds Pork Ports Potatoes Preserves Public Health Railways Reserve Stocks Rest Centres Rice Roads Sanitation Sewerage Starch Sugar Tea Transportation Vegetable Oil Vegetables Water Supply Wheat
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Coulsdon Croydon Dagenham Deptford East Ham Enfield Essex Hertfordshire Kent London Middlesex Redhill Shoreditch Surrey Waltham West Ham Woolwich
- Organizations Discussed
- Air Raid Damage Committee Ministry of Food Ministry of Health Ministry of Supply Ministry of Transport
- Pages
- 8
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Bombing Damage to Property Disruption to Services
