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THIRTY-FIFTH WEEKLY SUMMARY COVERING DAMAGE IN PERIOD 14.5.41 to 21.5.41.

22 May 1941

I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. A. BRIEF ANALYSIS OF AIR RAID DAMAGE IN THE PERIOD 14TH MAY TO 21ST MAY, 1941. (For details see below). HOMELESS. Numbers in London down from 12,000 to 5,000. Good progress in clearing rest centres elsewhere. Nightly exodus abating. WATER SUPPLIES. No damage in London. Pressures still low in places. Some damage at Nuneaton. MAIN DRAINAGE, No damage. DAMAGE TO HOUSE PROPERTY. Damage (for week ending 17th May) even heavier than in previous week. FOOD. Damage to stocks of flour and grain at Nuneaton.
retail public health electricity infrastructure housing water supply drainage cereals maize wheat pork animal feed butter cheese cocoa coffee eggs factories fish fruit industry pulses meat gas nuts transportation ports postal communications railways rice roads salvage sanitation sewerage sugar tea telecommunications vegetables oil homelessness storage fats starch london flour dairy bombing food supplies bacon southampton london underground damage to property repair oil seeds glasgow birmingham liverpool belfast air raids coventry sheffield newcastle upon tyne birkenhead region 5: london nottingham middlesbrough nationwide portsmouth bootle kingston upon hull great yarmouth cardiff swansea littlehampton wallasey crosby plymouth bomb damage merseyside clydeside greenock disruption to services eastbourne bristol bournemouth nuneaton preserves devonport air raid damage committee dunbarton rest centres clydebank barrow-in-furness beccles tipton falmouth trafford park
Civil Defence Region
Nationwide Region 5: London
Collection ID
CAB71
Document Reference
CAB 71/23/52
Document Types
Memorandum Statistical Publication
File Reference
CAB 71/23
Former Department Reference
ARD(41) 21
Identifier
10.1080/wtss.cab71.000023.052
Keywords
Air Raids Animal Feed Bacon Bomb Damage Butter Cereals Cheese Cocoa Coffee Dairy Drainage Eggs Electricity Factories Fats Fish Flour Food Supplies Fruit Gas Homelessness Housing Infrastructure London Underground Maize Meat Nuts Oil Oil Seeds Pork Ports Postal Communications Preserves Public Health Pulses Railways Repair Rest Centres Retail Rice Roads Salvage Sanitation Sewerage Starch Storage Sugar Tea Telecommunications Transportation Vegetables Water Supply Wheat
Language
English
Locations Discussed
Barrow-in-Furness Beccles Belfast Birkenhead Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bristol Cardiff Clydebank Clydeside Coventry Crosby Devonport Dunbarton Eastbourne Falmouth Glasgow Great Yarmouth Greenock Kingston upon Hull Littlehampton Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne Nottingham Nuneaton Plymouth Portsmouth Sheffield Southampton Swansea Tipton Trafford Park Wallasey
Organizations Discussed
Air Raid Damage Committee
Pages
11
Published in
United Kingdom
Series
Air Raid Damage and Shelter Policy Committee. Meetings 1(40) - 12(40); Papers 1(40) - 18(40), 11 Sept-12 Dec 1940; Papers 1(41) - 52(41), 2 Jan-24 Dec 1941; Papers 1(42) - 53(42), 1 Jan-Dec 30 1942
Themes
Bombing Industry Infrastructure Damage to Property Disruption to Services

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