B. DETAILED SUMMARY OF AIR RAID DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE PERIOD 12TH-19TH MARCH, 1941. I. HOMELESS. (a) London. The number of people in rest centres in the London Region has declined during the week from 2,040 to approximately 1,000. (b) England and Wales outside London. As a result of the raids on Merseyside on the 11/12th and 12/13th March approximately 7,800 homeless people were accommodated in rest centres. This number has now been reduced to 1,850. The arrangements are reported to have worked satisfactorily and billeting is proceeding smoothly.
- Civil Defence Region
- Nationwide Region 5: London
- Collection ID
- CAB71
- Document Reference
- CAB 71/23/43
- Document Types
- Memorandum Statistical Publication
- File Reference
- CAB 71/23
- Former Department Reference
- ARD(41) 12
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.cab71.000023.043
- Keywords
- Air Raids Alcohol Alcoholic Spirits Animal Feed Bacon Billeting Bomb Damage Butter Canals Cereals Cheese Cocoa Coffee Dairy Drainage Eggs Electricity Factories Fats Fish Flour Food Supplies Fruit Gas Homelessness Housing Infrastructure London Underground Maize Meat Nuts Oats Oil Oil Seeds Pork Ports Postal Communications Preserves Public Health Pulses Railways Rest Centres Retail Rice Roads Salvage Sanitation Sewerage Starch Storage Sugar Tea Telecommunications Transportation Vegetables Water Supply Wheat Yeast
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- Avonmouth Barking Birkenhead Birmingham Bootle Bristol Cardiff Clydebank Clydeside Coventry Dagenham Feltham Glasgow Gosport Kingston upon Hull Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Plymouth Port Sunlight Portsmouth Renfrew Salford Sheffield Southampton Stretford Swansea Trafford Park Vale of Leven Wallasey Wembley Yorkshire
- Organizations Discussed
- Air Raid Damage Committee
- Pages
- 13
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Bombing Industry Infrastructure Damage to Property Disruption to Services
