A. AIR RAID DAMAGE 7TH - 16TH OCTOBER. BRIEF ANALYSIS OF MAIN POINTS. I. HOMELESS. Numbers up by 4,250. II. LONDON WATER SUPPLY. Situation more difficult. Supplies interrupted or reduced in several areas. III. MAIN DRAINAGE. Repairs to Northern Outfall completed. Some fresh damage, including Fleet sewer. IV. HOUSE PROPERTY. Up to 12th October fewer houses damaged. V. FOOD. No important losses of stocks. Cold stores damaged. VI. MINISTRY OF SUPPLY FACTORIES. No very serious damage. VII. RAILWAYS. After showing some improvement, the situation has deteriorated during the last few days.
- Civil Defence Region
- Region 5: London Region 12: South Eastern (Tunbridge Wells HQ) Region 10: North Western (Manchester HQ)
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/23/18
- Document Types
- Memorandum Statistical Publication
- File Reference
- CAB 71/23
- Former Department Reference
- ARD(40) 5
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000023.018
- Keywords
- 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 Housing Infrastructure London Underground Margarine Meat Milk Munitions Industry Nuts Oil Seeds Pork Ports Potatoes Preserves Public Health Railways Rest Centres Rice Roads Sanitation Sewerage Starch Sugar Tea Transportation Vegetable Oil Vegetables Water Supply Wheat
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Balham Bayswater Chorley Cricklewood Croydon East Ham Essex Hertfordshire Kent London Manchester Middlesex Surrey Ware West Ham Woolwich Yeovil
- Organizations Discussed
- Air Raid Damage Committee
- Pages
- 9
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Bombing Damage to Property Disruption to Services
