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Description

A file of documents relating to billeting arrangements in hostel accommodation by the Friends' War Relief Service. Subjects discussed in the file include the recruitment for hostel wardens; the involvement of evacuees in hop-picking; emergency provisions for air-raid shelters; and financial issues, including the maintenance of evacuees, staff pay, and the lack of funding from the United States. Other subjects covered include the unification of voluntary organisations; the issue of the suitability of the hostels for long-term habitation; repair and renovation work for hostels; emergency hostel staff; the difficulties of transporting old-aged infirm evacuees to hostels; and the evacuation of the docklands area in London due to air raids. Documents in the file include tables of data itemising the evacuation centres, including classes of evacuees, the names of wardens, the numbers of evacuees, and the addresses of the hostels; and statistical data detailing the running costs of the hostels.

Keywords

accommodation, administration, agricultural production, agriculture, air raids, air-raid precautions, air-raid shelters, air-raid wardens, aliens, allowances, ambulances, bedding, Belgian nationals, billeting, bomb damage, buses, camps, charity, childcare, children, civil defence, clothing, coastal areas, communal feeding, conferences, conscription, cost of living, cotton, deafness, disability, disease, distribution, domestic equipment, domestic work, Dutch nationals, education, electricity, emergency procedures, employment, evacuable areas, evacuation, evacuees, family, farmers, finance, fire prevention, fire services, food preparation, food supplies, fuel, furnishings, German nationals, healthcare, homelessness, hospitals, hostels, householders, housing, infants, infrastructure, labour supply, laundry, licensing, lighting, loans, local authorities, maternity, mothers, motor vehicles, newspapers, nurses, Occupation of the Channel Islands, old age, overcrowding, parents, pensions, petrol, police, prices, priority classes, public health, public morale, public transport, Quakers, radio, railway stations, railways, reception areas, reconstruction, recruitment, refugees, rental properties, requisitioning, sanitation, scabies, schools, special schools, standard of living, surveys, teachers, telephonic communications, textiles, The Blitz, threat of invasion, towns, transportation, tribunals, unaccompanied evacuees, United States entry into the war, voluntary organisations, wages, waste disposal, welfare, winter