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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    2 If you are in charge of a business or shop, or an hotel or lodging house, or of tenements, decide upon places of refuge for those for whose safety and welfare you would be responsible. 3 Study carefully the precautions you can take against fire, and especially the instructions for dealing with a smail incendiary bomb. 4 In time of war ail buildings will have to be completely darkened at night. Be ready to do this for your home and any other premises for which you are responsible. 5 Begin to collect :-— materials for gas-protecting your refuge-room ; materials for darkening your whole house or business premises ; the things you would need in your refuge-room ; simple fire appliances, if you can afford them. 6 If you live in a large town, think whether you can make ~ arrangements for children, invalids and elderly persons, and pets, to be sent away the moment danger threatens, so that they may be in a place of greater safety. 7 Find out from your warden or local Council Offices the air raid precautions organisation and the emergency fire brigade arrangements being prepared in your district. As soon as you can get the information, fill in the spaces provided on the inside of the front cover of this book. Most important of all, see that all grown-ups are familiar with the contents of this book and know of the arrangements you are making for their safety. Do not do nothing, either on the ground that there is no need, or because you think that nothing you can do will be of any avail. Your safety, and the safety of those for whom you are responsible, may depend on you.