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Description

A file of government correspondence and memoranda relating to the British government's evacuation plans for mothers and young children at the Pioneer Health Centre in London. Subjects covered include billeting provisions in the countryside for evacuees as an air-raid precaution; and employment for mothers, particularly in food production, such as milking, vegetable growing, and food preparation. Other subjects covered include billeting allowances for evacuees; and wages for working mothers.

Keywords

accommodation, agricultural production, agriculture, air raids, air-raid precautions, allowances, bedding, beekeeping, bicycles, camps, cattle, chickens, childcare, children, civil defence, dairy, doctors, domestic work, emergency procedures, employment, evacuation, evacuees, family, finance, food preparation, food processing, food supplies, furnishings, gardens, healthcare, hospitals, housing, infants, labour supply, land usage, livestock, local authorities, maternity, milk, mothers, motor vehicles, nutrition, parents, poultry, raw materials, requisitioning, rural areas, skilled labour, teachers, transportation, vegetables, volunteers, wages, welfare, wives