The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office.

Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOW TO PREPARE YOUR REFUGE-ROOM against the effect of explosive bombs There are three. main types of bomb, an explosive bomb, an in-: cendiary bomb, a gas bomb. Precautions against fire are| described on page 19 and the way to deal with incendiary bombs| and fires generally on pages 26 and 27, under the heading “‘ What} to do if fire breaks out.” How to protect yourself against gas| has already been explained. How to provide some protection | against explosive bombs is dealt with here. The essential thing is to protect your refuge-room against the: shock of a bomb that may burst some distance away, and from): flying glass and splinters caused by the explosion. Protecting the windows of the refuge-room | Unless a window is barricaded with sandbags it is not easy| to prevent the glass of closed windows being shattered by the blast of an explosion, even at some distance away. But you can prevent splinters of glass being blown into the room by covering! the inside of the window panes with at least two thin sheets of one} of the transparent or translucent, non-inflammable materials now| commonly used for wrapping purposes and sold by stationers.| The material must be tough and not readily torn. Although a cellulose varnish is the best adhesive, water glass or even ordinary| gum can be used to stick the material to the glass, but examine it from time to time and regum when necessary. Thin celluloid makes a better job, but a non-inflammable variety} should be used, and it requires a cellulose varnish to stick it to} the window pane. The moisture-proof variety of transparent! wrapping material, such as is used on food packets and so on,| also requires a cellulose varnish as an adhesive. Failing anything better, some fabric material such as linen fromit old pillow cases, or mosquito netting, or even stout paper, may’ be pasted on the inside of the glass ; but these materials are no so effective as transparent wrapping material, or celluloid ; a they reduce the light. | |