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–A–

Absence from work, 312-314, 341, 342, 519, 523, 327

Abyssinia, 9

Accidents, 65n, 333-335, 477n

road, 139, 334

Admiralty, 17, 84, 159, 407n

Adolescence, 518n, 529n

Adoption, 386n

Advice and information services—See Information Services, Citizens’ Advice Bureaux

Agenda, 155n

Air, Secretary of State for—See Secretary of State for Air

Air attack

on Britain, 239-242, 248, 253, 272, 337, 340, 341, 347, 348, 362, 373, 386, 387, 442, 444, 462, 508, 517, 529, 534, 555, 558—See generally Ch. XV, XVI

German claims about, 324, 55, 556

on London, 11, 137, 150, 241, 244, 253, 256-259, 267, 268, 270-273, 276, 278, 283, 285, 286, 293, 296, 299, 304, 322, 324, 327, 329, 343-345, 349, 357, 359, 370, 389, 442, 443, 446, 453, 508, 534—See generally Ch. XVI

on the ports, 10, 442—See generally Ch. XV

experience in Spain, 8, 13, 14, 18, 20n, 47, 48, 70

First World War, 4, 5, 13n, 15, 18, 22, 325, 344n

and compensation for personal injuries, 13, 45, 46, 89, 95

and compensation for property owners, 15, 16, 49, 254, 279, 282, 283, 297, 298, 301, 328, 330, 331, 346

and financial distress, 12, 16, 45, 49, 52, 254, 255, 263, 279, 282, 283, 299

See also Assistance Board, Public Assistance

and homelessness, 47, 239, 251, 260, 268, 271-273, 277, 283, 286, 300n, 301, 302, 313, 316, 318, 319, 321, 327-329, 331

See also Homelessness, Care of the

and provision clothing, 46, 255, 262, 279, 282, 283, 298, 310

Air Estimates, 139n

Air Force—See Royal Air Force

Air Ministry, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 27, 43, 63, 313n, 325, 555, 556

Air raid casualties, 60, 62, 63, 79, 184, 239, 253, 254, 313, 325-327, 329, 332, 336, 443, 445, 557-561

expected numbers, 3, 4, 10n, 12-15, 54, 63, 142, 187n, 193, 239, 324-327, 444

See also Air Staff, estimates of German striking power

Air raid damage, 12, 15, 16, 320, 322, 324-330

to hospitals, 331, 444, 446, 449, 455-457, 459, 462, 463, 492

to houses, 16, 47, 96, 254, 260, 271, 272, 276, 277n, 279, 295, 301, 310-313, 317n, 320, 325, 327-330, 331n, 341, 411, 430

to schools, 331, 407

and repair of houses, 95, 256, 278, 280, 287, 290, 293-295, 313, 317n, 320, 331, 411, 430

Air Raid Defence League, 10n

Air raid precautions

Act, 47n, 56n, 58

Bill, 21, 26

Department, Home Office, 6-9, 11, 14, 25, 30n, 31, 46-49, 56, 57, 59, 64n

against gas attack, 6, 7, 10, 14n, 16, 31, 79, 241, 324, 364, 425n, 443

Hand Book, 23, 24

Air raid shelters, 27, 31, 48, 89, 93, 94, 148, 240, 255, 272, 274, 276, 277, 298, 326, 331, 342-346, 350, 357, 429n, 448, 450, 518, 534

Horder Committee on, 450n

Air Staff, estimates of German striking power, 4-8, 10, 12, 13n, 15, 21, 25, 43, 54, 56, 63, 138, 143, 173, 252, 260, 301, 324-327

Aircraft Production, Minister and Ministry of—See Minister and Ministry of Aircraft Production

Allen of Hurtwood, Lady, 391n

Almoners, 68n, 177, 195, 289, 471

The Institute of, 68n, 500n

Ambulance services, 55, 56, 58, 59, 71, 75n, 77-79, 81, 84, 93, 190, 445

American Foster Parents’ Plan for War Children, 377n

American Red Cross, 377n

Anaemia, 518, 520, 526

Anderson, C., 122n

Anderson, Sir John, 27, 57n

See also Lord Privy Seal, Lord President of the Council, Home Secretary

Anderson Committee on Evacuation, 27-30, 32, 34, 35, 156, 164

Anglo-American Relief Fund Nurseries, 377n

Anthony, Lt-Col., 409n

Approved schools, 101, 120

Arandora Star, 247

Architects, Surveyors and Technical Assistants, Committee of the Association of, 178n

Armed Forces, 55, 62, 63, 87, 101, 107, 145n, 185, 226, 333, 345n, 412, 462, 465, 481, 484, 497, 500, 503, 517n, 523, 526, 528, 529, 531, 533, 557, 558

See also Services

Army, 19, 20, 60, 62, 93, 94, 120, 134, 174n, 187, 294, 315, 372, 409, 410, 517

Medical Service, 84, 130, 475n, 531

recruits, health of, 514n, 516, 517

Welfare Officers, 151, 211

Astor, Lord, 318n

Assistance Board, 45n, 46, 46, 52, 89, 159, 165n, 167, 231, 2552, 78, 279, 282-284, 291, 292, 296, 298, 299, 315n, 330, 335n, 515, 516n, 542

See also Financial distress, Poor Law, Public Assistance

Attlee, C. R.—See Lord President of the Council, Prime Minister

Auxiliary hospitals—See under Hospitals

Auxiliary Territorial Service, 128, 401

–B–

Backus, P. L., 120n, 123n

Bacteriological warfare, 6, 10

Baird, D., 522n

Baldwin, S. (later Lord), 9, 24, 25

Balfour, Lord, 4, 5

Balme, H., 476n

Barnett House Study Group, 180n, 181n, 390n, 394n

Battle of Britain, 240, 248, 256n

Beaverbrook, Lord—See Minister of Aircraft Production

Beck, I. F., 471n

Bedwetting—See Enuresis

Behrens, Miss C. B. A., 305n

Berchtesgarden, 30

Bernal, Professor J. D., 329n

Beveridge, Sir William (later Lord), 25n

Billeting—See under Evacuation

Bingham, K, 518n

Birth rate, 31n, 416, 512n, 536

Blacker, C. P., 340, 341n

Black-out, 91, 97, 139, 147, 331, 334, 497, 529

Blankets and bedding, 53, 77, 83, 84, 86, 91-93, 11, 190n, 252, 258, 261, 262, 284, 265, 298n

Blease, J. E., 132n

Blind persons, provision for, 479

See also under Evacuation

Blood transfusion, 55, 79, 190, 474, 483, 531

Board of Control, 497n, 498n

Board of Education, 26, 27, 30, 94, 118, 127, 128, 130, 131, 144, 145, 146n, 148, 149, 168n, 169, 170n, 206n, 213, 215, 219, 222, 224, 226n, 371, 373, 382, 405n, 416, 423n, 509n, 520n

President of (Mr. R. A. Butler), 509n

Reports of the Chief Medical Officer of the, 129, 131, 134, 135n, 149, 492n, 510n, 522n, 526n, 530n

See also Education, Ministry of Education, Schools

Board of Trade, 116, 282, 283n, 315n, 330, 422

Board of Trade Journal, 422n

Boer War—See War

Bomb damage—See under Air Raid Damage

Bombing

precision, 7, 8, 10, 326

saturation, 364

Bombs

delayed action and unexploded, 6-8, 253, 257, 260, 278, 280, 293, 301n

flying, 322-324, 329, 355, 387, 398n, 402, 426-431, 442, 462, 465, 466, 555, 556, 559, 560

high explosive, 6, 7, 10, 14n, 47, 240, 257, 260, 327, 329, 331, 344, 555

incendiary, 6, 7, 10, 14n, 240, 257, 331, 555

rockets, 322, 324, 328, 329, 426, 427n, 429-431, 434, 442, 462, 465, 466, 555, 556, 560

Borstal institutions, 101

Bottome, Phyllis, 249n

Boundaries, local government—See Local government boundaries

Bowen, Elizabeth, 347

Bowlby, J., 123n

Boyd, W., 104n, 108n, 111n, 121n, 179n, 362n, 373

Bread, 532, 533

Bristol University Settlement, 378n

British Employers’ Confederation, 139

British Expeditionary Force, 108, 508, 511

British Hospitals Association, 65n, 77, 193n, 198n, 453, 454, 456n, 457, 458, 498

British Institute of Public Opinion, 132

British Journal of Education Psychology, 122n

British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 531n

British Journal of Medicinal Psychology, 338n

British Journal of Nutrition, 509n

British Journal of Social Medicine, 471n

British Medical Association, 198, 199n, 227, 229, 470n, 476, 477n, 480n, 523n, 541

British Medical Journal, 121n, 123n, 476n, 480n, 518n, 519n, 526n, 529n, 534n

British Red Cross Society, 188, 261n, 269, 298, 314n, 377n, 460, 461, 462n, 463n, 464n, 479n, 489, 499

British Restaurants—See Communal feeding

British War Relief Society, 377n

Broad, H., 511n

Brougham, Lord, 507

Brown, Ernest—See Minister of Health

Brown, John and Company, shipyards, 313, 314n

Butler, Dame Georgiana, 476n

Burial of the dead, 12, 13, 21, 49n, 79, 93, 171n, 220, 468

Burlingham, D., 180n, 181n

Burn, Richard, 155n

Burt, Professor C., 122n

Busemann, A., 347n

Butler, R.A.—See Board of Education, President of

Buxton, P. A., 133n

–C–

Cabinet, 9, 15, 17, 26n, 36, 61, 63, 64, 88, 89, 92, 138, 139, 142, 156, 162, 163, 178, 179, 241, 246, 247, 254, 255n, 256n, 274, 275, 284, 294, 314, 315n, 318, 365n, 425, 428, 464, 465, 474, 509, 511, 512n, 515n, 516n, 518n, 531

Civil Defence Committee of, 240, 270n, 274, 286, 308n, 317

Food Policy Committee of, 511

Rocket Consequences Committee of, 428

Camps—See Evacuation, National Camps Corporation Ltd.

Camps Act, 1939, 36

Canadian Red Cross Society, 262, 377n

Cancer service, 68, 96

Canteens—See Communal feeding

Casualties, 339

Armed Forces, 184, 185, 333, 335, 336n, 442

civilian air raid, 60, 62, 63, 79, 184, 239, 254, 313, 325-327, 329, 332, 335, 336, 443, 445, 557-561

expected numbers, 3, 4, 10n, 12-15, 54, 63, 142, 187n, 193, 239, 324-327, 444

See also German striking power, pre-war estimates of

Casualty beds—See under Hospitals

Casualty bureaux, 78, 79, 92

Central Association for Mental Welfare, 381n

Central Statistical Office, 330n, 336, 398n, 510n, 512n, 513n

Chadwick, Edwin, 519

Chamberlain, Neville, 270n

See also Lord President of the Council, Minister of Health, Prime Minister

Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon), 516n

(Sir Kingsley Wood), 532n

See also Treasury

Charity Organisation Society, 111n, 116, 218, 2600263, 265n, 268n, 278n, 283n, 292, 298, 302n, 377n, 499, 501n

Chatfield, Lord—See Minister for the Coordination of Defence

Chemical Defence Research Department, 6

Chemists—See Pharmacists

Child guidance, 20, 381n

Child welfare service, 54, 138, 145, 146, 148-150, 153, 507, 511-514, 530, 532, 535

See also Evacuation, Nurseries, Schools, Welfare Food Schemes

Children Act, 1948

Children

backward, 408, 409n

cruelty to, 391, 437n

dental condition of, 138, 526, 535

deserted by their parents, 432, 435-437

employment of, 418, 419

under five, and mothers, welfare of, 54, 153, 507, 511-514, 530, 535

Children and Young Persons Act, 1933, 386n

Children’s Country Holiday Fund, 377n, 378

Children’s hospitals—See under Hospitals

Children’s Overseas Reception Board—See under Evacuation

Children’s shoes, shortage of, 376, 421-423

China, 9

Chronic and aged sick, 67, 68, 70, 72, 446-448, 450-452, 465, 489, 491, 492, 495, 499-501, 504n

See also Hospitals: patients, transferred and Old people

Chrystal, Sir George, 49

Churchill, Mr. Winston, 7, 9, 10, 16, 21

See also Prime Minister

Church’s Army, 266

Citizens’ Advice Bureaux, 211, 264, 291, 292, 298, 300, 302n, 385n, 501n

See also Information services

City of Benares, 247

Civil defence, 6, 8, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 31, 32, 33n, 40, 48, 49n, 55, 56n, 60, 89, 94, 97, 137-142, 152, 240, 317, 323, 329n, 331, 342-344, 347, 405, 412, 429, 557, 560, 562

See also Air raid precautions, Home Office, Ministry of Home Security

Civil Defence Act, 1939, 59n, 85, 87, 88, 157n

Civil Defence Bill, 42

Civil Defence Committee of the War Cabinet—See Cabinet

Civil Nursing Reserve, 82

Civil servants, 3, 21, 89, 101, 401

Clothing, provision of—See Air Attack and Evacuation

Clyde Basin experiment—See Scotland: experiments in social medicine

Coastal areas—See Evacuation

Coffins—See Burial of the dead

Cole, M., 111n, 179n

Colonge, 425n

Colville, John—See Secretary of State for Scotland

Colville-Chatfield Commission, 188n, 200

Committee of Imperial Defence, 3-5, 13n, 21n, 45, 46, 48, 49, 142, 260, 325

Air Raid Precautions (Organisation) Committee, 5, 8, 18, 23

Bacteriological Warfare Sub-Committee, 10

Home Defence Sub-Committee, 31, 33n

and evacuation, 7, 18n, 23-26, 290n, 30, 548

and hospitals, 56, 57n, 60, 63, 64n, 81n

Communal feeding, 23, 28, 46, 51-53, 92, 143, 164, 166, 251, 255n, 266, 267, 296-298, 300, 310, 311, 320, 321, 323, 346, 375, 403, 428, 533

See also Food, Mobile canteens, School meals

Compassionate leave, 209, 414, 415, 424

See also Family life in war

Compensation for personal injuries by air attack—See Air attack

Compensation to property owners and air attack—See Air attack

Comptroller and Auditor General, 517

Compulsory evacuation—See Evacuation

Consumer goods, shortage of, 398, 399, 421, 435n

Convalescence, 70n, 187, 192, 196, 269, 372, 375, 377, 478, 460, 461, 463n, 471, 476, 498, 499

See also Hospitals, auxiliary

Coode, G., 204n

Coordination of Defence, Minister for—See Minister for the Coordination of Defence

Cosens, M., 180n

Cost of living, 115n, 139, 164, 166, 332, 398, 399, 512, 532, 533

Coummonlos, H., 526n

Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts, 148, 267

Cranborne, Lord—See Lord Privy Seal

Crawford, W., 511n

Creak, E. M., 123n

Crichton-Miller, H., 338n

Crimean War—See War

Criminal Justice Bill, 96

Criminal statistics, 341n

Cripples, 138, 498

See also Evacuation

Crowther, J. G., 329n

Cruikshank, E. W. H., 481n

Curtis Committee Report, 122n, 229, 230n, 234, 349n, 388n, 391, 436

Customs and Excise Department, 298, 301n

–D–

Daily Express, 139n

Daily Mail, 139n

Daley, Sir Allen, 456n

D’Arcy Hart, P., 531n

Davidson, L. S. P., 518n

Davies, J. N. P., 529n

Davis, G., 511n

Dawson, Lord, 456n

Day nurseries—See Nurseries

Death rates—See Mortality

Defence Regulations, 95, 157n, 358, 366, 371n, 376n, 391n, 486

Delevigne, Sir M., 477n

Delayed action bombs—See Bombs

Deliqeucny, juvenile, 148, 340, 341, 379, 405, 410, 413

Dent, H. C., 112n, 179n

Dental condition of children, 138, 526, 535

Dentistry, 145, 148, 177

Dentists, 82, 145, 530

Department of Education for Scotland—See Scotland

Department of Health for Scotland—See Scotland

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 329n

Departmental responsibilities, division of, 8, 364

and evacuation, 30, 32

and the homeless, 48n, 49

and hospitals, 56-59, 468

See also Air Raid Precautions Department

Dependency rules, liability for payment under, 212

poor law, 516

recovery of billeting allowances, 156, 158, 159

See also Evacuation, Poor Law, Public Assistance

Derby,. Lord, 115

Derrick, V. P. A., 535n

Despert, J. L., 349n

Determination of Needs Act, 1941, 515n

Dieticians, 481, 482

See also Hospitals: food

Diphtheria, 420

immunisation, 151n, 220, 332, 515

See also Infectious diseases

Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944, 479

Dispersal, policy of, 326, 345n, 360, 428

See also Evacuation

District Medical Services—See Poor Law Medical Services

Divorces, 436, 437

See also Family life in war

Dobbs, R. H., 518n

Dr. Barnardo’s Homes, 377n

Doctors, 64, 70, 81, 82, 191, 192, 475, 480, 502, 503, 520n, 528n, 530, 531

consultants and specialists, 60, 67, 70-72, 81, 191, 197n, 198

general practitioners, 71, 191, 199, 216, 227, 470n, 472, 473, 475, 488, 493, 530

medical officers, 75

payment of, 81, 82, 189, 195, 197-19, 229

See also British Medical Association and Hospitals

Doland, Lt.-Col., G., 27n

Domestic staff, shortage of, 380, 388, 394, 412n, 448n, 503, 515n

Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C. T., 240n, 555

Drug Account Committee (Scotland), 528n

Drugs and medicines, 519, 528-531

Drunkenness, 341

Dunkirk, 192, 344, 442, 508, 511, 517

–E–

Eady, W., (later Sir W.), 30n

East End of London—See London

Economic Advisory Council, 514n

Economist, The, 29, 300n, 387, 516n, 529n

Eden, Anthony, 507n

Edinburgh, Archbishop of, 179n

Education

Board of—See Board of Education

Departments, 95, 121, 126, 146, 169

and Evacuation, 26, 94, 177, 224, 225, 243, 396, 405

Minister and Ministry of—See Minister and Ministry of Education

and war, 96, 145-147, 312, 331, 404-410, 416-423

See also Ministry of Education, Schools, Scotland

Education Act, 1944, 114

Education (Scotland) Act, 1908, 118n

Eire, 367, 563

Electricity supplies and power stations, 8, 16

Elliot, Walter—See Minister of Health

Emergency Bacteriological Service—See Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service

Emergency Hospital Service—See Hospitals

Emergency legislation, 95, 437

See also Defence Regulations

Emergency Maternity Service—See Maternity Services

Emergency Medical Service—See Hospitals

Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939), 59, 95

Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service, 10n, 55, 70n, 78, 79, 84, 190, 192, 226, 229, 473, 474, 483

Employment, full, 347, 422, 532, 533, 537, 538

E.N.S.A., 267

Enuresis, 114, 120-125, 133, 175n, 349, 379, 404

Epidemics, danger of—See Infectious diseases

Equipment supplied by public authorities, 62, 77, 83-86, 90-93, 110-112, 264, 265, 296, 372, 542

See also Hospitals: equipment for, Rest centres

Essential Work Order

Evacuation, generally, 7, 12, 14, 153n, 241, 242, 344

administration and planning—See generally Ch. III and 102, 105, 106, 150, 151, 242, 356-361, 375, 379, 385, 425n, 428, 429, 541

of blind persons, 103, 172, 360, 431, 433n, 541, 562

of cripples, 103, 153n, 172, 562

of expectant mothers, 103, 107, 112, 113, 172, 221, 285n, 359, 360, 363, 400, 426n, 427, 541, 542, 562-564

of government departments, 17, 101

of handicapped children, 29, 36, 103, 172, 213, 433, 541, 542

of homeless people, 356, 360, 363, 426n, 427, 562, 563

of hospital patients and staff—See Hospitals: patients, transfer of

of mothers and accompanied children, 103, 108, 142, 167, 172, 174, 244, 285, 300, 346n, 355-360, 362-364, 374, 390n, 425, 426, 431, 433, 544, 545, 548, 552, 564-564

of old people, 297, 356, 359, 360, 368, 426n, 427, 431, 435, 450-452, 468, 500, 562

of schools and universities, 29, 101, 107, 137

of unaccompanied children, 28, 29, 44, 142, 143, 163, 172-174, 227, 242, 243, 250, 285, 313n, 346, 357, 358, 360, 363, 410, 425, 426, 431-433, 437, 534, 541, 544, 545, 548, 550, 551, 560, 562-564

of under-fives, 29, 108, 112, 169, 213, 215, 358, 359, 431, 433, 541, 562-564

– See also Nurseries

Advisory Committee on the Evacuation of Schoolchildren, 32, 175

Anderson Committee on, 27-30, 32, 34, 35, 156, 164

assisted private, 163, 244, 249n, 285, 360-363, 366-369, 389, 390, 426, 427, 429, 564

and billeting, 28, 35-40, 106, 110-113, 124, 140, 143, 144, 165, 167, 168, 174n, 180, 181, 215, 245, 248, 249, 356-360, 362, 365, 369, 372, 374, 375, 378, 379, 383, 387, 425-427, 492, 434, 541-543, 562, 563, and Ch. 19 (iii)

accommodation surveys, 27, 36-39, 93, 102, 365, 366, 393, 394n, 553

allowances, 28, 39, 141, 154, 161, 164, 168, 244, 359, 361, 362, 367, 401, 432, 542, 564

inadequacy of rates, 161-163, 167, 178, 389, 397-400

recovery of, 155-157, 160, 161, 164, 167, 178, 223, 227n, 250, 360, 361, 548

– See also Dependency rules

revision of rates of, 162-164, 175, 397, 398

compulsion, 25, 28, 35, 96, 359, 395

extra payments by evacuees to householders, 396, 399

billeting officers, 96, 361, 390-393, 421n

camps—See Evacuation: hostels and camps

Children’s Overseas Reception Board, 246, 247, 250, 563

children’s clothing and footwear, 92, 114-120, 125, 133, 135, 161, 166, 178, 376, 404, 421

clothing scheme for necessitous children, 119, 165, 166, 374-376, 386, 387, 403

from coastal areas, 224, 241, 243-245, 285, 357, 360, 364, 425n, 443

Committee of the Association of Architects, Surveyors and Technical Assistants, 178n

and Committee of Imperial Defence, 7, 18n, 23-26, 29n, 30, 528

compulsory, 34, 175, 244, 344, 349, 358, 369, 420

compulsory removal of evacuees from prescribed areas, 244, 245, 364

condition of evacuees, 114, 125-127, 130, 131, 133, 135, 178, 378, 379, 388, 389, 404, 421

determination of areas, 11, 32, 94, 208, 367, 427, 428

and education—See Evacuation and schools

evacuation areas, 35n, 41, 43, 103, 107, 110, 143, 146, 146, 223, 224, 228, 375, 431, 546, 550n

financial policy, 24, 28, 36, 42, 91, 92, 110, 150, 152, 170-172, 206, 207, 212, 213, 219-229, 231, 232, 361, 370, 372-376, 379, 386, 397

forecasts and statistics, 24, 32-38, 44, 101, 102, 105-107, 111, 137, 145, 171, 173-175, 244, 245, 248, 249, 285, 286, 300, 355-359, 362, 363, 369, 381n, 390n, 410, 426-429, 433-435, 437, 543-553

hostels and camps, 35, 36, 91, 111, 112, 124, 140, 164-166, 175, 342, 360, 370, 372, 375, 377, 378, 389, 390, 403, 405, 425-428, 433n, 437-439, 562-564 and Ch. 19 (ii)

ante-natal and post-natal, 371, 374, 383, 401, 420

for convalescence, 382

for difficult children, 143, 164, 379, 380, 382-384, 425n

for handicapped children, 384

for old people, 371, 425, 435n

for secondary school children, 164, 373, 382, 384

and local government, 26, 27, 31, 32, 39, 41, 105, 110, 143-145, 150-153, 170, 203, 361-363, 365, 371-373, 391n

See also Local Government Boundaries

and maternity services—See Maternity Services

medical inspection of schoolchildren, 126, 127, 175, 379

movements, 97, 101, 124, 150, 151, 175, 249, 355-358, 363, 368, 428, 433

unorganised after air attack, 9, 271, 272

See also Trekking

neutral areas, 546n, 547, 550n

overseas, 90, 102n, 246-250, 563

priority classes for, 33-35, 42, 43, 97, 102, 208, 219, 223, 226, 249, 356, 358, 362, 543, 545-549, 563, 564

private, 38, 44, 90, 91, 96, 101, 102, 135, 208, 219, 233, 224, 226, 356, 361, 543, 545-547, 549

business firms, 91, 101, 364

overseas, 90, 102n, 246-250, 563

reservation of accommodation, 37-39, 44, 102, 106, 547, 553

See also Evacuation: assisted private

reactions of householders in reception areas, 39, 357, 360, 369, 379, 382, 383, 387-390, 393, 396-398, 402, 404, 410, 421, 423, 424, 426

reception—See generally Ch. 7, Ch. 10, Ch. 19 and 25, 28, 40, 41, 92, 369, 370, 372, 542

reception areas, 41, 107, 108, 119, 131, 138, 140, 143, 144, 146, 148, 150, 151, 167, 171, 174, 177, 178, 219, 221-224, 228, 355, 357, 359, 362-364, 375, 378, 379, 387, 389, 390, 393, 403, 424, 428, 471, 545-547, 553

Shakespeare Committee of Inquiry into Conditions in, 378, 386

and religious denominations, 112, 179, 541

response to scheme, 44, 102-107, 175, 176, 248, 285, 345, 346n, 355, 370, 426

See also Evacuation: forecasts and statistics

return home, 112, 137, 143, 144, 147, 156, 171-174, 177, 179, 249, 345, 349, 357, 362, 370, 378, 386, 411, 429-441, 544-549

scheme, change into welfare scheme, 404, 405, 411, 412, 423-425, 430, 432, 438, 441

and schools, 110

breaking up of school units, 112, 147

closure and reopening, 26, 94, 143, 146, 147, 156, 243, 405, 408, 417, 423

in evacuation areas, 26, 146, 147, 156, 406, 408

in reception areas, 105, 225n

scholarship winners, 395, 396

See also Schools

Scotland, 29, 33n, 39, 41, 103, 104, 108, 113, 174, 248, 357, 362, 363, 367, 369n, 373, 426n, 432, 545n, 546, 551, 552, 562-564

See also Scotland, Department of Health for

and the social services—See generally Ch. 8, Ch. 10, Ch. 12, Ch. 19

See also Evacuation and welfare, Social services

teachers and helpers, 28, 42, 102, 106, 107, 111, 143, 145, 146, 150, 157, 172, 356, 391, 426, 541, 542, 544, 562-564

and transport, 24, 25, 40, 43, 44, 97, 106-109, 111, 171, 174, 243, 359, 362, 363, 429, 432n, 433, 541

visitors’ fares, 178, 220

and welfare, 40, 143-145, 151, 164, 166, 228, 357, 369, 424-426, 428, 431, 432, 434-438

clothing scheme for necessitous children, 119, 120, 165, 166, 374-376, 386, 387, 403

medical services, 143, 146, 151, 167, 175, 219, 224, 227-229, 541, 542

mothers’ clubs and social centres, 144, 169, 370, 371, 373-375, 403

play, nursery and welfare centres, 144, 167, 169, 170, 370-374

sickbays, 111, 112, 162, 170, 175, 227, 371, 374, 403

See also Evacuation and the social services

winding up of scheme, 427, 429, 431-441

Evening Standard, 436n

Exchequer, Chancellor of—See Chancellor of the Exchequer

Expectant mothers—See Evacuation, Maternity services

–F–

Family life in war, 105, 345, 436, 500

absence and return of fathers, 210, 213, 334, 412, 415, 416, 419, 420, 423, 429, 438-440, 523n, 528

after-effects of separation, 436, 438-441

distressed families—See generally Ch. XX and 209, 211-213, 424, 425

illness of mothers, 413, 414, 416, 419

mothers in industry, 334, 411n, 412, 416, 418, 419, 420n, 423

resistance to separation, 344-346, 340, 357

See also Compassionate leave, Evacuation: response to scheme and return home

Family Welfare Association—See Charity Organisation Society

Farmer and Stockbreeder, 513n

Far, W., 519

Feeding centres or stations—See Communal feeding

Feiling, K., 270n

Ferguson, J., 123n

Fever hospitals—See Hospitals for infectious diseases

Financial distress

and air attack, 12, 16, 45, 49, 52, 254, 255, 263, 279, 282, 283, 299

First World War, 45, 52, 231, 270

See also Assistance Board, Public Assistance, Relief

Financial policy, 9, 26n, 46, 52, 53, 91, 92, 154

and evacuation, 24, 28, 36, 42, 91, 92, 110, 150, 152, 170-172, 206, 207, 212, 213, 219-226, 229, 231, 232, 361, 370, 372-376, 379, 386, 397

and local government boundaries, 52, 150-153, 203, 205-208, 212, 214-216, 219, 223-226, 228-233, 252, 253, 370, 384, 368, 469

and welfare, 140, 141, 153, 252, 253

See also Hospitals: Emergency Hospital Service finance, Select Committee on National Expenditure, Treasury

Fire bombs—See Bombs

First aid services, 14, 20n, 55, 56, 58-60, 75n, 79, 81, 84, 89, 93, 188, 189, 313, 346, 558, 560

See also Civil Defence, Hospitals

First World War, 54, 88n, 91, 120, 134, 135, 140, 149, 348, 406, 507, 531n

air attack on London, 4, 5, 13n, 15, 18, 22, 325, 344n

claims for sickness benefit, 347, 527

financial distress, 45, 52, 231, 270

hospitals, 56, 476

morale, 10, 12, 18, 22, 338, 347

Fisher, H. A. L., 54n

Fisher, Sir Warren, 258

Flying bombs—See Bombs

Foch, Marshal, 18

Food, 509, 532, 536, 538, 541

in hospitals, 187, 480-483, 487, 503

Minister and Ministry of—See Minister and Ministry of Food

Offices—See Ministry of Food

Policy Committee of the War Cabinet, 511

shortage and rationing, 89, 149, 176, 401, 481, 482, 510, 516, 518-520, 522, 523, 531, 533, 538

See also Communal feeding, Nutrition, School meals, Welfare food schemes

Food Manufacture, 511n

Foote, P. R., 124n

Ford, P., 154n, 155n

Fracture services—See Orthopaedic services, Rehabilitation

Freud, Anna, 180n, 181

Nurseries, 377n

Friends’ Ambulance Unit, 280n

Friends, Society of, 261, 308n

Friends’ War Relief Service, 314n, 368, 374, 377n

Fromm, E., 349

Front Line, 331n

Fuel and Power, Ministry of—See Ministry of Fuel and Power

Furniture, supply of, 435n, 438

See also Homeless

–G–

Gallup Poll, 529n

Gardner, F., 72n, 73n, 471n

Garratt, G. T., 48, 300n

Garwood, Dr. F., 329n

Gas attack, danger of, 6, 7, 10, 14n, 16, 31, 79, 241, 324, 364, 425n, 443

Gas supplies, 8, 311

Gastric ulcers, 343n

Gater, Sir George, 29

General medical practitioners—See Doctors

General Post Office, 84, 315n

General Register Office, 413n, 430n, 520n, 525n, 558

See also Registrar-General

German-Soviet Pact, 91

German striking power, pre-war estimates of, 3-15, 21, 25, 43, 54, 56, 63, 138, 143, 173, 252, 260, 301, 324-327

Gifts from overseas, 119, 210, 298, 375-377

Gill, S. E., 121n

Gillespie, R. D., 339n, 340n

Gleneagles Hospital, 473n

Glover, J. A., 519n

Goldmann, F., 233n

Goldsworthy, Mrs. G. M., 439n

Gondal, Maharajah of, 119

Goodenough Committee on Medical Schools, 70n

Government departments, evacuation of—See Evacuation

Gowing, M. M., 86n, 96n, 153n, 508n, 532n

Great Ormond Street Hospital (London) for Children, 499n

Greenwood, Professor Major, 335n, 531n, 535n

Grünhut, Dr. M., 390

Guest, Dr. L. Haden, 27n

Guy’s Hospital, 457n

–H–

Hall, Sir Daniel, 514n

Haal, M., 391n

Hamburg, 305, 425n

Hamilton, W. H., 191n

Hammon, R. J., 267n, 320n, 518n

Hancock, W. K., 86n, 96n, 153n, 508n, 532n

Hargreaves, G. R., 338n

Harley Street, 81

Harris, Sir Percy, 27n

Head infestation—See Lice

Health, Minister and Ministry of—See Minister and Ministry of Health

Health Bulletin, Department of Health for Scotland, 525n, 526n

Health Departments, 515n, 518, 520

and evacuation, 11, 27, 31, 33-35, 37-41, 44, 91, 92, 102, 110, 114, 115, 118, 121, 125, 126, 143, 144, 159, 162, 163, 169, 171, 178n

and hospitals, 58, 61, 77, 84, 86, 185, 477, 483, 502, 503

and the homeless, 251, 265

See also Ministry of Health, Scotland, Department of Health for

Health in war—See generally Ch. XXV and 14, 15, 54, 420

See also Mental health and war

Heart diseases, 335n, 519

High explosive bombs—See bombs

Hill, Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderick, 323n, 427n

Hill Homes at Highgate, 374n

Hilton, J., 116n

Hitler, Adolf, 5, 241

Hoare, Sir Samuel (later Lord Templewood)—See Home Secretary

Hodsoll, Wing Commander, E. J., 23

Home Guard, 344, 557

Home Office, 4n, 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 23, 25-27, 29, 31, 33, 49, 56n, 59, 63, 180n, 289, 394n, 407n, 418, 556, 559, 560n

Air Raid Precautions Department of the, 6-9, 11, 14, 25, 30n, 31, 46-49, 56, 57, 59, 64n

Incendiary Bomb Committee of the, 7n

Structural Precautions Committee of the, 7n, 48n

Home Secretary (Sir Samuel Hoare), 21, 26-30

(Sir John Anderson), 138, 148n

(Mr. Herbert Morrison), 436n

Home Security, Minister and Ministry of—See Minister and Ministry of Home Security

Homeless

care of the—See generally Ch. IV, Ch. XIV, and 7, 14n, 90, 92, 93, 240, 385

resettlement of the, 251, 273, 274, 2810283, 285, 286, 356

billeting, 51, 251, 254-256, 269, 274-281, 287, 288, 290, 297, 298, 300, 307n, 310, 311, 317, 319, 323

rehousing, 46, 51, 254-256, 260, 265, 269, 274-278, 280, 281, 287-290, 295n, 297-300, 302, 307n, 310, 311, 323

supply of furniture and bedding, 256, 281, 283, 285, 287, 288, 297-299, 302

removal and storage of furniture, 256, 279, 281, 282, 284, 287-290, 296, 297

See also Evacuation of the homeless, Public Assistance, Rest centres

Homelessness through air attack, 47, 239, 251, 260, 268, 271-273, 277, 283, 286, 300n, 301, 302, 313, 316, 318, 319, 321, 327-329, 331

See also Housing

Hopkins, Sir F. Gowland, 514n

Horder, Lord, 258, 261n, 450n

Horder, Committee on Air Raid Shelters, 450n

Horsborough, Miss Florence—See Ministry of Health, Parliamentary Secretary to Hospital, 475n

Hospitals—See generally Ch. V, Ch. XI, Ch. XXII, Ch. XXIII, Ch. XXIV

air raid damage to, 331, 444, 446, 449, 455-457, 459, 462, 463, 492

almoners, 68n, 177, 195, 289, 471

Association, British, 65n, 77, 193n, 198n, 453-458, 496

auxiliary, 55, 94, 188, 454n, 460-462, 464, 472, 479, 489, 498, 499

See also Red Cross Society

beds

before the war, 68, 69, 72

for confinement, 4, 89

See also Maternity services

crowding of, 63, 73, 77, 80, 81, 83, 96, 186n, 460, 463n, 489

estimated needs of, 6, 13, 54, 56, 62, 63, 187, 443, 463, 464, 477

loss of, 444, 446, 449, 462, 492

plans and statistics, 63-65, 80, 81, 185-187, 193, 457, 460-466, 477

reserved for casualties, 62, 77, 80, 184, 185, 193-196, 201, 443-446, 448, 449, 452, 455, 458, 459, 461, 463, 465-469, 477, 485-489, 491, 492, 494, 500, 560, 561

reduction of numbers, 140, 197n, 447, 450, 453, 454, 458, 485, 487, 494

shortage for sick civilians, 15, 70-73, 445, 447, 449, 453-459, 461, 470, 485, 486, 488, 489, 494, 495-495, 497, 500, 528, 530

before the war—See generally Ch. V (iii) and 64, 65

casualty bureaux, 78, 79, 92

children’s, 74n, 492, 493, 498, 499

and Committee of Imperial Defence, 56, 57n, 60, 63, 64n, 81n

complaints about, 452, 488, 490, 491

distribution of beds and patients—See generally Ch. XXII (ii) and 70, 71, 444, 449, 452, 453, 458, 474, 484, 496, 504

Emergency Hospital Service, 95, 154, 558, 562

administration and planning—See generally Ch. V (ii) and (iv) and 442, 466-469, 482, 486, 494, 496, 504

of London sectors, 75-77, 200, 201

classes of hospitals, 56, 74, 188

classes of patients, 201, 466-470, 485, 489, 494

demobilisation of, 458, 466

Director General of, 59, 64, 194n, 198n, 451, 455, 504n

equipment, 190, 479, 483

estimates of “discharge beds”, 463, 464

expanding scope of, 201, 466-484, 504

finance of, 56-58, 77, 85, 154, 155, 200, 220, 446, 450, 454-458, 461, 466-468, 494

maternity beds used for casualties, 74n, 113, 194

officers, 64n, 75, 76, 92, 447, 453, 472, 473n, 478, 482, 488, 490, 491n, 4930495, 496, 499

quality of, 188, 191, 192, 442, 459, 466-485, 504

regional advisers of, 192, 472, 477

Service patients, 57, 60, 62, 63, 442, 444, 455, 459-465, 467, 469, 473, 475n, 477, 478, 481, 489, 492, 494, 499

suspension and withdrawal of hospitals from, 18n, 195, 459

First World War, 56, 476

food in, 187, 480-483, 487, 503

Government powers, 196, 453, 482, 485-487, 503

hutted units of, 73, 80-83, 93, 186-188, 190, 460, 463, 483

for infectious diseases, 15, 68n, 70n, 74n, 81, 185n, 196, 223, 448, 496n

and local government boundaries, 67, 153, 155, 203, 468

London County Council, 68, 48, 85, 154, 155, 197, 200, 447, 448, 449n, 450-454, 462

mental and mental deficiency institutions, 64n, 68n, 70n, 74n, 80n, 496n, 497, 498

Ministry of Pensions’, 462

municipal, 66-70, 72, 76, 200, 447n, 448, 449, 453, 454, 487, 489, 494, 501, 504n

See also under London County Council

out-patient work, 188, 189, 196n, 198, 457n, 470, 475, 476, 479

patients

admissions of, 68, 444, 445, 447

discharges of, 189, 193, 471

ejection of, 63, 73, 74, 77, 80, 83, 97, 101, 183, 187, 193-195, 463n, 464, 465, 524

priorities, 448, 455, 470, 485, 487, 489, 499, 500, 503

recovery costs from, 154, 155

transfer of, 60, 62, 64, 74, 83, 97, 101, 107, 137, 154, 155, 185, 196n, 220, 245, 297, 428, 429n, 443, 444n, 446-448, 450, 451, 452, 467, 464-468, 474, 475, 487, 489, 491, 494-496, 500, 562

traveling expenses of, 473

public assistance institutions, 67-70, 72, 83, 101, 192, 415, 499-501

records and information, 65, 70, 80, 475, 476

reserve, 188, 452, 464

sanatoria, 101, 187, 226

Scotland, 60n, 63, 81n, 185n, 463, 466, 477, 494-496, 503n

Services’, 57n, 60-62, 185n, 462, 463, 465, 478, 497n

Services’ needs, 187, 195, 201, 465

and social medicine, 471-476, 479, 480, 487, 503

See also Scotland

special centres and specialisation, 55, 190-192, 470, 473-478, 480, 495, 496

staff, 62, 70, 74, 81, 95, 97, 101, 448n, 463-466, 477, 479, 483, 496, 504, 530

medical, 67, 70, 74, 81, 82, 198-200, 479, 480, 530

See also Doctors

structural precautions to, 48n, 78

surveys, 64, 65, 69-73, 78, 493n, 500n, 504n, 505

teaching, 19, 65, 67, 70n, 76, 197, 198n, 453

“upgrading” of, 64, 73, 75, 80, 81, 83, 190, 192, 442, 459, 460

See also Hospitals: equipment

voluntary, 58, 60, 64-68, 70, 72, 76, 78, 81, 200, 218, 401, 448n, 449, 454-457, 461, 475, 487, 489, 494, 495, 497, 504n

emergency bed service, 504n

finance, 72, 197, 445, 449, 450-458, 487, 494, 496

Report of Commission, 65n

and sick civilians, 193-196, 198, 200, 201, 445, 448, 450, 452-454, 458, 472, 493, 494

waiting lists, 73, 194, 198, 331, 447, 450, 472, 489, 490-496, 499, 500n, 504n, 523n

Year Books, 65, 456n, 457n, 490

Hostels, 298, 319, 320

See also under Evacuation and Old People

House of Commons, 25-27, 29, 30, 35, 42, 90, 126, 135, 139n, 140, 163, 175n, 185n, 216n, 241, 275n, 284, 300n, 306, 344, 400, 422, 426, 506n, 516n

House of Lords, 436n

Houses

air raid damage, 16, 47, 96, 254, 260, 271, 272, 276, 277n, 279, 295, 301, 310-313, 317n, 320, 325, 3270331, 341, 411, 430

requisition of, 174n, 255, 256, 277, 280n, 281, 285, 288, 299, 371n, 372

use of condemned, 177n, 371n, 411

without bathrooms, 131, 177n, 411

Housing, 96, 131, 434, 435, 515n, 531, 536

(Emergency Powers) Act, 1939, 256n

overcrowding, 411, 412, 420, 423, 528, 534

repair of bomb damage, 95, 256, 278, 280, 287, 290, 293-295, 313, 317n, 320, 331, 411, 430

Servicemen’s families, 414n, 415

shortage

evacuation areas, 430, 434, 437, 440

reception areas, 36-38, 358, 359, 363-368, 371, 383, 392, 394, 395, 425n

Humphries, J. H., 206n

Hysterical neurosis—See Neurosis

–I–

Idle, D., 270n

Illegitimacy, 72n, 211, 212, 386n, 415n, 426

Incendiary bombs—See Bombs

Incendiary Bombs Committee—See Home Office

Incorporated Association of Headmasters, 393n, 396n

India Office, 19, 50

Industrial Health Research Board, 419n

Industrialists, Government’s Advisory Panel if, 36

Infantry mortality—See Mortality

Infectious diseases, 14, 15, 92, 171, 332, 420, 444, 448, 464, 518, 519n, 533, 534

See also Hospitals

Inflation, 140, 153, 154, 399

Information, Ministry of—See Ministry of Information

Information services, 276, 279, 291, 293, 297, 298, 307n, 317, 319, 323, 373

See also Citizen’s Advice Bureaux

Inland Revenue Department, 283n

Inskip, Sir Thomas—See Minister for the Coordination of Defence

Institute of Public Cleansing, 131n

Intelligence tests, 409

International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 123n

Invalid Children’s Aid Association, 377n, 378, 499

Invasion, threat of, 241, 324, 364, 425n, 443, 508

Isaacs, Dr. S., 179n, 181, 182n

–J–

James, William, 347

Jeffrey, M., 122n

Johnston, Mr. Thomas—See Secretary of State for Scotland

Jones, D. C., 132n

Jones, H. A., 13n

Jones, Huws, 320n

Journal of Hygiene, 511n

Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 535n

Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 132n

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 335n, 520n, 534n, 535n

Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, 30n

Journal of Social Case Work, New York, 413

Juvenile delinquency, 148, 340, 341, 379, 405, 410, 413

–K–

Kernack, W. O., 535n

Key, Charles, 258

King Edward’s Hospital Fund, 68, 196n, 482, 483

–L–

Laboratory Service—See Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service

Labour, Ministry of—See Ministry of Labour

Lancashire and Cheshire Community Council, 378n

Lancet, The, 71n, 27n, 73n, 121n, 122n, 124n, 192n, 197n, 198, 199n, 338n, 343, 391n, 476n, 481n, 488n, 515n, 518n, 519n, 522n, 529n, 531n, 535n, 538n

Langley, E. M., 509n

Lasswell, H. D., 22n, 348

Lavatories, 108, 111, 124, 131, 261

Law of Settlement and Removal, 52, 205, 206n, 230

See also Local Government Boundaries

League of Nations, 132n

Leeson, C., 134n, 439n

Lewis, Professor Aubrey, 341n

Lice, 114, 126-131, 133, 135, 136, 219, 225, 404, 420

Lindsay, G. M., 111n

Literacy, 409, 410

Liverpool Child Welfare Association, 378n

Livingstone, F. D. M., 123n

Lloyd, E. J. D., 206n

Lloyd, E. M. H., 22n

Lloyd, Major-General, 409n

Lloyds, 15

Local Government Act, 1919, 69

Local government boundaries—See generally Ch. X (ii), Ch. XII and 41, 268, 269, 274, 275, 280n, 281, 284, 285, 287, 302, 306, 307, 318, 384, 474

finance, 52, 150-153, 203, 205-208, 212, 214-216, 219, 223-226, 228-233, 252, 253, 370, 384, 468, 469

hospitals, 67, 153, 155, 203, 468

public assistance, 203-205, 215, 216, 554

social services, 150, 151, 203, 205, 207, 210, 217, 223, 224, 228, 235, 252, 254, 278, 370

Local and central government, relationship and division of responsibilities between, 21n, 52, 53, 56, 58, 60 88, 203-208, 213-215, 217, 222, 225, 229, 232, 234, 235, 269, 270, 276, 278, 291, 293, 295, 302, 314, 316-318, 357, 361, 372, 373, 376, 377, 380, 385n, 391n, 392, 437, 438, 468, 469

Local government and evacuation, 26, 27, 31, 32, 39, 41, 105, 110, 143-145, 150-153, 170, 203, 361-363, 365, 371-373, 391n

Lodging Restriction Orders, 366, 367

London

air attack on—See Air attack on London

Council of Social Service, 162, 266, 292, 378n

County Council, 51, 210, 415n

and education, 117, 120, 129, 148, 405n, 417

and evacuation, 27-29, 32-34, 36, 40-42, 97, 108, 121, 146n, 151, 156, 159, 178n, 214, 219, 220, 223, 251n, 346n, 358, 361, 373, 376, 393, 408, 427, 431, 433, 541

and finance, 170, 207, 212, 213, 215

and hospitals, 68, 84, 85, 154, 155, 197, 200, 447-454, 462

and homelessness, 52, 53, 254-270, 274-277, 279, 280, 290, 294, 300, 328n

East End, 13n, 29, 42, 174, 257-259, 285n, 301, 359, 394n

Hostels Association, 298

Metropolitan Boroughs, 220n, 256, 274, 279, 280n, 288

School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 332

Special Commissioners for, 258

See also Sir Warren Fisher, Mr. Charles Key, Mr. H. U. Willink

London Gazette, The, 240n, 323n, 427n, 55n

London Press Exchange Limited, 529n

Londoners’ Meal Service—See Communal feeding

Lorand, S., 349n

Lord Mayor’s National Air Raid Distress Fund, 282, 298, 299

Lord President of the Council (Mr. Neville Chamberlain), 294

(Sir John Anderson), 274, 365n

(Mr. C. R. Atlee), 512n

Lord Privy Seal (Sir John Anderson), 8, 31, 32, 35, 530

(Lord Cranborne), 531

Lyon, D. Murray, 481n

–M–

Macadam, Elizabeth, 289n

McCall, C, 182n

McCance, R. A., 511n

Macdonald, Malcolm—See Minister of Health

Mace, D. R., 436n

MacIver, O. A., 422n

Mackay, H. M. M., 518n

McKendrick, A. G., 535n

Mackintosh, J. M., 177n

McKinley, P. L., 525n, 526n, 535n

Manpower, 12, 83, 140, 153, 323, 364, 380n, 391n, 402, 407, 412, 473, 474, 476, 478, 487

building, 280, 294, 295, 314n, 360

See also Ministry of Labour, and Women, mobilisation of

Mansell, G. S., 120n, 123n

Marley, Lord, 470n

Marrack, J. R., 513n, 520n

Marriages, 91, 436, 437, 439

See also Family life in war

Marriage Guidance Council, 436n

Mass radiography—See Tuberculosis

Maternal mortality—See Mortality

Maternity services, 68n, 70n, 72, 111, 113, 196, 214n, 217, 218n

bed shortages in evacuation areas, 400, 419, 420

beds used for emergency hospital service, 74n, 113, 194

emergency maternity service, 84, 91, 92, 103 107, 110, 112, 113, 172, 220-223, 285n, 359, 360, 363, 371, 372, 374, 400-403, 420, 425, 427, 428, 438, 496n, 541, 542, 562-564

return fares for mothers, 400, 401

See also Midwives

Mead, Margaret, 413

Means tests, 154-161, 167, 178n, 206, 210, 212, 219, 220n, 250, 361, 399, 511, 515, 548

Medical certificates, 393, 399n, 418, 528

Medical Inspection and Feeding of Children attending Public Elementary Schools in England, Departmental Committee on, 1905, 507n

Medical Officer, 15n, 127n, 128n, 129n, 130n, 462n

Medical profession—See British Medical Association, Doctors

Medical Research Council, 78, 79, 341n, 474, 512n, 151n, 518n, 520, 524n, 526n

Medicines, 519, 528-531

Mellanby, Professor E. (later Sir Edward), 514n

Mellanby, H., 526n

Mellanby, Dr. Kenneth, 127-129

Mellanby, M., 526n

Mental Health

Emergency Committee, 20, 379, 380n, 3881

Provisional National Council for, 125n, 377n, 381n

services, 19, 381, 382

See also Board of Control, Hospitals, Psychiatrists

and war, 19, 3370341, 350

See also Morale, Neurosis, Psychiatrists

Mental Hygiene, National Council for, 381n

Mental Welfare, Central Association for, 381n

Merchant navy, 393n, 467, 557

Middlesex Hospital, 457n

Midwives, 113, 221, 411n, 503n, 542

See also Maternity services

Military Training Act, 1939, 81, 130, 516

Milk, 138, 145n, 222, 332, 401n, 510-513, 523n, 533

Distribution, Report of the Committee on, 513n

Marketing Board, 513n

priority on medical grounds, 513

safety of, 512

See also National Milk Scheme, School meals and milk

Miller, E., 338n

Miners’ Welfare Commission, 473n

Minister of Aircraft Production (Lord Beaverbrook), 364

Ministry of Aircraft Production, 315n, 366, 470

Ministry of Civil Defence, proposals for, 275

Minister for the Coordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip), 10n, 61, 63

(Lord Chatfield), 188n

Minister of Education (Mr. R. A. Butler), 407n, 436

Ministry of Education, 407n

See also Board of Education

Ministry (Board) of Education, Chief Medical Officer, Reports of, 129, 131, 134, 135n, 149, 492, 510n, 522n, 526n, 530n

Minister of Food (Lord Woolton), 509n, 511, 512n, 518

Ministry of Food, 76, 89, 266, 267, 311, 315n, 320, 482, 512-514, 519n, 520, 523n

Ministry of Fuel and Power, 473n

Minister of Health (Mr. Neville Chamberlain), 270

(Mr. Walter Elliot), 35, 44, 126, 144, 165, 185n, 188n, 197, 230, 156

(Mr. Malcolm Macdonald), 228, 259, 263, 264, 275, 286, 287, 295, 364, 448n, 511

(Mr. Ernest Brown), 470n, 504

(Mr. Henry Willink), 430, 436

Ministry of Health, Parliamentary Secretary to (Miss Florence Horburgh), 177n

Ministry of Health, 3, 19-21, 54, 88, 232, 235, 269, 270, 315n, 339, 340, 519n, 520n, 529n

Advisory Committee on Evacuation—See Evacuation

Central Housing Advisory Committee, 177n

Chief Medical Officer, Reports of, 58n, 78n, 184n, 185n, 245n, 260n, 332n, 443n, 444n, 459n, 461n, 465n, 478n, 479n, 481n, 520n, 525n, 527n, 528n, 534n, 560n

and evacuation, 30, 32, 40-42, 50, 91-93, 107, 108, 110, 111, 117-122, 125n, 127, 144, 159n, 160n, 165, 168n, 170, 171, 172n, 179, 206, 207, 210, 213, 215, 219, 221, 222, 226-229, 244, 289, 358, 359, 361, 366, 367, 370, 371, 373, 375, 376, 379, 390-393, 395, 396, 399, 401, 405n, 424, 425n, 341, 434, 436, 544n

and the homeless, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51-53, 252-254, 265, 266, 270, 272, 278, 279, 281n, 284n, 288, 290, 300n, 302, 306, 307n, 309, 316, 318n

and hospitals, 6, 13, 15, 56-61, 63-66, 71n, 72, 75-78, 81-85, 113, 154, 187, 188, 190-192, 195-201, 220, 446, 447, 449, 452-456, 458, 460, 461, 463, 464, 467-471, 475, 476, 478, 479, 481n, 482, 483, 485-491, 493-497, 499, 501

and housing, 131n, 177n, 177n, 277n, 280, 295n, 364-366, 394

Monthly Bulletin, 335n, 519n

Monthly Survey of Sickness, 520, 527n

and public assistance, 14, 205, 210, 230, 415n

regional organisation, 60, 75, 89, 92, 111, 163, 171, 178n, 199n, 200, 229, 254, 256, 276n, 287, 290, 302, 315-317, 371, 373, 376n, 380, 386, 392, 399, 502

and the social services, 145n, 212, 264, 270, 291-293, 297, 309, 332, 377, 381, 384-386, 511, 512, 514n, 515

See also Health Departments, and Scotland, Department of Health for

Ministry of Home Security, (Mr. Herbert Morrison), 275, 295, 317

Ministry of Home Security, 78n, 89, 289, 315n, 325, 326, 329, 343, 407n, 450n, 557-560

Research and Experiments Department of, 313n, 331n, 341, 555, 558

See also Civil Defence

Ministry of Information, 144, 293, 315n, 331n

Ministry of Labour, 27, 315n, 364, 385n, 392, 393n, 412n, 420n, 473, 476, 478, 479n

Ministry of Pensions, 45n, 62, 159, 185n, 187n, 282, 298, 315n, 335n, 385n, 462, 476

Ministry of Reconstruction, report on the work of, 1918, 507n

Ministry of Shipping, 76

Ministry of Supply, 84, 265, 315n, 412n

Ministry of (War) Transport, 32, 110, 139n, 178n, 315n

Ministry of Works, 132, 178n, 186, 264, 265, 277n, 294, 315n, 411n

Mira, Professor, 20n

Mitford, N., 112n

Mobile canteens, 266, 267, 297, 311, 314, 320

See also Communal feeding

Monckton, Sir W., 391n

Monthly Digest of Statistics, 510n, 512n, 513n

Morale and public order, 9, 10, 12, 16-22, 30, 50, 140, 142, 175, 303, 312, 313, 327, 429 and see generally Ch. XVII

First World War, 10, 12, 18, 22, 338, 347

See also Neurosis

Morbidity—See Sickness rates

Morris, C., 195n

Morris, J. N., 529n

Morrison, Herbert, 29

See also Home Secretary, Minister of Home Security

Mortality, 333-335, 497, 519-527, 531, 533-538, 557

infant, 131, 312, 332, 333, 509, 518, 519n, 520-522, 526, 530, 531, 537

maternal, 521, 535, 537

neonatal, 536n

stillbirths, 519n, 521, 522, 526, 531n, 535, 536n, 537

See also Accidents, Casualties

Mortuaries—See Burial of the dead

Mothers

in industry, 334, 411n, 412, 416, 418, 419, 420n, 423

unmarried, 72n, 211, 212, 386n, 415n, 426

and young children, welfare, of, 54, 153, 507, 511-514, 530, 532, 535

See also Evacuation, Maternity services

Municipal hospitals—See Hospitals

Munich crisis, 8, 9, 17, 19, 29-31, 34, 35, 44, 46, 49, 59, 61, 77, 85, 86, 140, 176, 339n, 340, 387n, 548

–N–

National Camps Corporation Limited, 36, 153n, 373

National Council of Social Service, 292, 293, 302n, 310, 314n, 319n, 374, 391n

National Health Insurance, 189n, 227, 237, 519n, 527-529

Act, 1941, 515n

National Insurance Bill, 1946, 527n

Napoleonic War—See War

National Milk Scheme, 511-513, 516, 532

See also Milk

National Register, 103, 208, 248n, 543n, 545-547

National Society of Children’s Nurseries, 377n

National Union of Teachers, 119

Navy—See Royal Navy

Neurosis, 18-20, 50n, 79, 80, 190, 338-341, 347, 349, 350, 479, 517

See also Morale

News Chronicle, 132n, 529n

Nursery Homes for the Children of War Workers, 377n

New Statesman and Nation, The, 300n

Nightingale, Florence, 54

Northern Ireland, 306, 367, 563

Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, 72n

Nurseries, 84, 112, 143, 543, 562

day, 374, 381n, 384, 415, 420n, 541

residential, 209-215, 242, 359, 372, 374-376, 381n, 383, 384, 386, 402, 405, 415, 425-428, 433n, 437-439, 563, 564

public assistance, 210, 212, 214, 415n

See also Evacuation

Nursery centres, 167, 169, 170, 374

Nursery Schools Association, 169n, 377n

Nurses, 64, 70, 72, 74, 81, 82, 95, 97, 143, 145, 146n, 175, 401, 426, 448n, 452, 502, 503, 525n, 530

Working Party on the Recruitment and Training of, 499n

Nursing, 54, 82n, 452, 469, 503n, 506n

Homes, 491, 501

Reserve, Civil, 82

Nutrition, 332, 480-483, 509, 513, 514, 518, 519, 520n, 522, 523, 526

of schoolchildren, 130, 510, 520, 529n, 532, 533, 537, 538

See also Food, Health in war, School meals and milk

–O–

Observer Corps, 555, 557

O’Brien, T., 17n

Odham’s Printing Works, 13n

Odlum, D. M., 123n

Office of Works, 84, 94

Old age pensions—See Pensions

Old Age and Widows’ Pensions Act, 1940, 516n

Old people, 68, 216, 269, 333, 334, 360, 501, 532, 560

hostels for, 297, 368, 371, 425, 435n, 451

shelter evacuation scheme, 297, 450-452, 468, 500

See also Chronic and aged sick, Evacuation, Pensions

O’Neill, boarding-out case, 391n

Opticians, 82

Orr, Sir John Boyd, 511

Orthopaedic Services, 72, 190, 192, 467, 469, 470, 473, 476-480, 493

See also Rehabilitation

Orwin, C. S., 177n

Overcrowding—See Housing

Owen, C., 312n

Oxford House Settlement, Bethnal Green, 378

–P–

Padley, R., 111n, 179n

Pai, M. N., 122n

Paneth, M., 123, 416n

Panic—See Morale

Parliament—See House of Commons, House of Lords

Patent medicines, 528n, 529, 530

See also Drugs and medicines

Penicillin, 531

Pensions, Ministry of—See Ministry of Pensions

Pensions, old age, 507, 514, 516

Pensions and Determination of Needs Act, 1943, 515n

Personal Injuries

compensation for, 13, 45, 46, 89, 95

(Civilians) Scheme, 29, 335n

(Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939, 45, 95n

Personal Service League, 374

Pharmacists, 82, 528n

Physical Deterioration, Interdepartmental Committee on, 1904, 507n

Physical Medicine, Advisory Committee on, 474n

Physical Training (Scotland), Royal Commission on, 1903, 507n

Planning, 71n, 471n

Play centres—See Evacuation

Plymouth American War Relief Trust, 378n

Police, 18n, 19, 20, 23, 24, 90, 315, 541, 557, 558

Political and Economic Planning, 71n, 471n

Pooley, Sir Ernest, 456n

Poor Law

Act, 1601, 155n, 156, 211n

Act, 1930, 45n, 157n, 211n, 256, 554

Amendment Act, 1834, 215, 216n

Commissioners Ninth Annual Report of, 1843, 205n

dependency rules, 156

medical services, 177, 227-230, 384

Royal Commission on, 1905-9, 206, 297

stigma of, 52, 67, 438, 501, 510, 514, 515n, 516n, 517

See also Assistance Board, Homeless, Local government boundaries, Public Assistance

Population

movements, 14, 101, 102, 137, 138, 154, 208, 217, 345, 356, 363, 395, 413, 416, 492, 534, 543, 546, 547

See also Evacuation, Removals

Royal Commission on, 536n

Royal Commission on the Distribution of, 10n

statistics of, 103n, 208, 323, 345, 364, 422n, 543n

Port of London Authority, 79n

Ports, air attack on—See generally Ch. XV, and 10, 442

Post-raid services—See generally Ch. IV, Ch. XIV, Ch. XV and 240, 323, 346, 385

See also under First Air Services, Homeless, Rest Centres

Practitioner, The, 123n, 177n, 526n

Prague, 43

Precision bombing—See Bombing

Priestley Nurseries Limited, 377n

Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain), 30, 185n

(Mr. Winston Churchill), 182, 185n, 244, 245, 254, 287, 293, 314n, 342, 429

(Mr. C. R. Attlee), 214n

Prisons and prisoners, 101, 339

Prisons, Commissioners of, and Directors of Convict Prisons, 339n

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 481n, 509n, 513n, 520n

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 535n

Psychiatrists and medical psychologists, 19, 20, 22, 121, 337-341, 344, 349, 429, 440

See also Child guidance

Public Assistance, 116, 155n, 158, 160, 206, 211, 213, 270, 506, 516, 556

authorities, 159, 162, 210, 220, 222, 227, 230n, 251, 252, 271, 278, 467, 468

children in the care of, 210, 212-214, 229, 230, 384, 386n, 415, 435-438

and care of the homeless, 14n, 45, 48, 51, 52, 251-254, 256, 262-264, 267, 271

institutional and domiciliary relief, 90, 116, 134n, 161, 231, 554

institutions, 67-69, 70n, 72, 83, 101, 192, 415, 499n, 500, 501

officers, 214, 200, 254, 256, 262, 264, 291, 292, 385n, 500n, 515

See also Assistance Board, Local government boundaries, Ministry of Health, Poor Law

Public Assistance Journal and Health and Hospital Review, 231, 500n, 501n

Public Health Act, 1936, 220

Public Health, 123n, 125n, 131n, 520n

Public opinion, 348, 400, 435, 483, 488, 501

Pybus, R., 481n

–Q–

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, 493

Quetta earthquake, 19

–R–

Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, 471n

Reception authorities—See Evacuation

Reconstruction, Ministry of—See Ministry of Reconstruction

Reconstruction, post-war, 504, 505, 508

Red Cross Society

American, 337n

British, 188, 261n, 269, 298, 314n, 377n, 460-464, 479n, 489, 499

See also Hospitals: auxiliary

Canadian, 262, 377n

Refugees from abroad, 245, 246, 563

Regional

Commissioners, 17, 119n, 199, 275, 315, 317, 318, 366n

Medical Officers—See Hospitals: Emergency Hospital Service

Organisation of the Ministry of Health—See Ministry of Health

Regions, Civil Defence, 17

See also Ministry of Home Security

Registrar-General, 139n, 161, 212n, 248n, 332n, 333, 341n, 407n, 436, 515n, 521-525, 531n, 534n, 536n, 537n, 528n, 557, 559

See also General Register Office

Rehabilitation, 70n, 192, 473, 476-480, 483, 503

of Persons Injured by Accidents, Interdepartmental Committee on the, 65n, 477n

of Persons Injured through Enemy Action, Interdepartmental Conference on, 477n

and Resettlement of Disabled Persons, Interdepartmental Committee on, 478, 479

See also Orthopaedic Services

Relief

financial, 45-48, 89, 95

in kind, 45, 263

See also Homeless

in Kind Committee, Ministry of Health, 19n, 49-51, 252

Regulation Order, 1930, 230

Regulation (Amendment) Order, 1940, 230n

See also Assistance Board, Financial distress, Poor Law, Public Assistance

Relieving Officers—See Public Assistance

Remand homes, 101

Removals, 103n, 413, 430n

See also Population movements

Repair of War Damage Act, 1941, 256n, 294n

Residential nurseries—See Nurseries

Rest centres, 52, 53, 240, 251, 253, 258-260, 263, 268, 269, 272-274, 276, 277, 279, 283n, 289-291, 293, 294, 296-298, 300-302, 307, 310, 314n, 317-320, 323, 331, 344, 346, 350, 428n, 450, 534

equipment of, 93, 252, 253, 255, 261-267, 269, 302

food in, 251, 253, 255, 260, 266, 267, 269

and public assistance, 51, 52, 251, 252, 254, 262-264, 267, 271

staffing of, 269, 270, 290, 298, 323

structural protection of, 255, 266

See also Homeless

Reynolds News, 436n

Rickman, J., 436n

Road accidents, 139, 334

Rockets—See Bombs

Rocket Consequences Committee, 428

Rotterdam, 337

Rowntree, Seebohm, 132n

Royal Air Force, 187n, 192n 400n

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 411n

Royal Commission on Population, 536n

Royal Free Hospital, 457n

Royal Navy, 60, 120, 121, 134, 17n

Royal Society of Medicine, Proceedings of the, 123n, 133n

Royal Statistical Society, 520n

Rural areas, social conditions in, 111, 145n, 177

Russell, W. T., 519n

Ryle, Professor J. A., 475n

–S–

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 457n

St. Pancras County Colony, 368n

St. Stephen’s Hospital, 448n

St. Thomas’s Hospital, 457n

Sanatoria—See Tuberculosis

Sand, René, 535

Sanitary system, danger to, 10, 14

Sanitation, 91

See also Lavatories

Sansom, W., 344n, 350

Save the Children Federation of New York, 377n

Save the Children Fund, 377

Scotland, 374n

Scabies, 114, 131, 332, 404, 420, 421

School leaving age, 96

Schools

approved, 101, 120

attendance, 147, 312, 405n, 408, 416-422

buildings

damage to, 331, 407

inadequacy of, 407, 408, 423

requisitioning of, 94, 95, 147, 407, 408

closure and reopening of, 26, 94, 143, 146, 147, 156, 243, 405, 408, 417, 423

meals and milk, 54, 138, 144-147, 149, 164, 166, 177, 222, 223, 312, 375, 387, 507, 509, 510, 512, 514, 536

medical service, 54, 127-129, 133, 134, 138, 145, 147, 149, 151, 155, 177, 219, 223, 225, 227, 229, 312, 421n, 510, 526, 530

nurses, 143, 145, 146n, 175

population, 105, 406, 407, 417

public, 120, 452

secondary, 147, 164, 373, 382, 393, 396, 406, 427n

size of classes, 405-407, 417, 423

special, 437, 498

teachers, 95, 312, 407, 412, 421, 510

shortage of, 407, 408, 417, 423

truancy, 419

Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of, 329n

Scotland, 125, 306, 319, 320, 406, 521, 522, 524-526, 528n, 557

clothing for necessitous children, 118

Department of Education for, 147, 509n

Department of Health for, 88, 144n, 306n, 328n, 520n, 525n, 526n

and evacuation, 32, 39, 41, 111, 144n, 180n, 374, 386

and the homeless, 53, 319, 386

and hospitals, 60n, 61, 64, 84, 472, 495-497

See also Health Departments

evacuation, 29, 33n, 36, 39, 41, 103, 104, 108, 113, 174, 248, 357, 362, 363, 367, 369n, 373, 426n, 432, 545n, 546, 551, 552, 562-564

experiments in social medicine, 472, 473, 476n, 477, 494-496

hospitals, 60n, 63, 81n, 185n, 463, 466, 477, 494-496

school meals and milk, 149, 510n

Secretary of State for (Mr. John Colville), 144, 179, 188

(Mr. Thomas Johnston), 504, 509m, 518n

Supplementary Medical Service, 472

Scottish Housing Advisory Committee, 132n

Scottish Special Housing Association, 36, 153n

Second Front, 425n, 442, 461

Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair), 555n

Select Committee on National Expenditure, 199, 200

Service

allowances, 105, 162, 414n

Departments, 32, 62, 162, 476, 479

Services

compassionate leave, 209, 414, 415, 424

families of men in the, 414, 415, 425, 532

hospitals run by the, 57n, 60-62, 185n, 462, 463, 465, 478, 497n

See also Armed Forces, Army, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy

Settlement

Act, 1662, 204

and Removal, 203, 204, 214-216, 222, 230

and Removal, Law of, 52, 205, 206n, 230, 554

See also Poor Law, Public Assistance

Settlement workers, 261, 374

Shakespeare, G., 180n

Shakespeare Committee of Inquiry into Conditions in Reception Areas, 378, 386

Sheldon, J. H., 501n

Shell Shock, Report of Inquiry into, 340n

Shelters—See Air raid shelters

Shipping Federation, 393n

Shipping, Ministry of—See Ministry of Shipping

Shoes—See Children’s shoes

Sickbays—See Evacuation

Sickness

benefit, claims for in the First World War, 347, 527

Monthly Survey of, Ministry of Health, 520, 527n

rates, 492, 519, 523, 527, 528, 533, 537

Simnel, E., 349n

Simmins, C. A., 122n

Simon, Sir John—See Chancellor of the Exchequer

Sinclair, Sir Archibald—See Secretary of State for Air

Singer C., 54n

Skin diseases, 72, 114, 131, 312, 332, 404, 420, 421

Slany, A., 343n

Slums, 124

Social legislation, post-war, 216

Social services

disruption of by war, 138, 141, 146, 149, 150, 217, 312, 506, 509

expansion of in war, 217, 386, 435, 438, 502, 503, 506, 515

and local government boundaries, 150, 151, 203, 205, 207, 210, 217, 223, 224, 228, 235, 252, 254, 278, 370

pre-war, 145n, 506

See also Financial policy

Social Survey, The, 132n, 411n, 418n

Social welfare, expansion of government responsibilities, 217, 386, 502, 503, 506, 508

Social workers—See generally Ch. XIX (ii) and 287, 289-291, 297, 371, 376-378, 390, 391, 434, 438, 472n

psychiatric, 379-382

See also Almoners, Voluntary social work

Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families’ Association, 211n, 277n, 415n

Soldiers’ and Sailor’s Help Society, 377n

Spain, 9

experience of air attack in, 8, 13, 14, 18, 20n, 47, 48, 70

Special Commissioners for London, 258

See also Sir Warren Fisher, Mr. Charles Key and Mr. H. U. Willink

Spence, J. C., 423n

Spicer, C. C., 343n

Spivs, 410

Spring-Rice, M., 124n, 182n

Standard of living, 520, 522, 530, 532, 526

See also Cost of living

Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women’s Organisations, 169n

Stanley, Lady, 111

Star, The London, 436n

Statute of Elizabeth, 1601, 204

Stewart, D. N., 343n

Stillbirths—See Mortality

Stocks, Dr. P., 335n, 518n, 520n, 525n, 526n, 527n, 523n, 535n, 538

Structural Precautions, 47, 48n

Committee—See Home Office

to hospitals, 48n, 78

to rest centres, 255, 266

Stuart-Harris, C. H., 534n

Suicides, 340, 436

Sulphonamides, 519, 531

Supplementary Medical Service, Scotland, 472

Supplementary Pensions—See Old age pensions

Supply of equipment—See Equipment

Supply Departments, 364

Supply, Ministry of—See Ministry of Supply

–T–

Teachers—See under Evacuation, Schools

National Union of, 119

Telephone services, 8, 16

Thompson, Francis, 439

Times, The, 31n, 90, 102n, 105, 135, 198n, 300n, 436n, 508, 516, 518n, 519n

Times and Talents Holiday Settlement, Bermondsey, 378n

Tokyo, 132

Tomlinson Committee, 478, 479

Trade, Board of—See Board of Trade

Transferred war workers, 245n, 255, 364-368, 385, 394, 395, 401, 469, 528, 562

Transport, 8, 16, 25—See under Evacuation

Ministry of (War)—See Ministry of (War) Transport

Treasury, The, 21n, 35, 52, 53, 58, 61, 77, 81, 85, 91, 92, 113, 118, 140, 156, 157, 163, 164, 169-172, 186, 200n, 227n, 229n, 252, 253, 263, 296n, 314n, 361, 376, 379, 397, 399, 454, 477, 478, 509, 511, 515n

See also Chancellor of the Exchequer

Trekking, 257, 271, 272, 306-309, 311-313, 341, 342, 344

Trotter, Wilfred, 22n

Tube stations—See Underground railways

Tubercle, 519n

Tuberculosis, 68n, 70n, 72, 101, 178n, 193, 194, 196, 219, 223n, 226, 391, 479,l 496n, 497, 500n, 509, 512n, 518-520, 524-526, 531n, 538

allowances, 515

mass radiography, 525n

Report of Committee of Inquiry into the Anti-Tuberculosis Service in Wales and Monmouthshire, 178n

sanatoria, 101, 187, 226

–U–

Underground railways, 8, 18, 22, 107, 274, 331, 342-345, 429n, 534

Unemployment, 45, 90, 117, 117n, 140, 154, 161, 284, 313, 347, 522, 528, 529

Assistance, 116, 117n

Assistance Board—See Assistance Board

Assistance (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939, 167

Unexploded bombs—See Bombs

Ungerson, Lt.-Col., 409n

United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 256n, 257n, 305, 327, 339n, 412n

University College Hospital, 457n

–V–

Verdon-Roe, C. M., 511n

Vermin, 312

See also Lice

Veneral disease, 54

Vital statistics, 333, 492, 522, 524, 531-535

See also Birth rate, Mortality, Population

Voluntary Air Detachments, 448

Voluntary hospitals—See Hospitals

Voluntary social work, 94, 119, 169, 210, 211, 217, 258, 261, 262, 264, 266, 267,m 269, 282, 288-292, 298, 299, 302, 312, 315, 319,m 323, 346, 368, 372, 374-378, 381, 402

See also Social workers

–W–

Wages, 399, 436, 532, 536

Wagner, G., 180n

Waifs and Strays Society, 377

Waiting lists—See Hospitals

Wales, 65n, 67n, 68, 70, 71n, 101, 125, 177n, 178n, 194n, 320, 393, 492, 547, 553

War

1914-1918—See First World War

Boer, 54, 133, 507

Crimean, 54, 112n

Napoleonic, 335, 531, 532

Cabinet—See Cabinet

damage—See Air raid damage

Damage Act, 1941, 282n, 301n

and health—See Health

Office, 19, 22, 57, 61, 82, 84, 88n, 128, 159, 187, 188, 209, 211n, 265n, 294, 407n, 409n, 414, 463, 464, 475n

Risks Insurance—See Air attack: compensation for property owners

service grants, 285n

Warren, Dr. M., 72n

Water supplies, 8, 14,16, 311, 534

Waterloo, Battle of, 507

Webb, Beatrice and Sidney, 205n, 206

Webster, R. C., 123n

Weir Conference, 16n

Weitzman, Dr. S., 107n, 112n, 177n, 510n

Welfare food schemes, 401, 507, 513, 514, 533

See also National Milk Scheme

Welfare officers—See Social workers

Welsh National Memorial Association, 101, 194n

Westminster, Archbishop of, 436n

Whiddington, R., 329n

White, G., 163n

Widdowson, E. M., 511n

Wiener Klinische Wochenscrift, 343

Willink, H. U., 258, 266n, 279n, 284n, 286-289, 297, 306

See also Minister of Health

Wills, L., 518n

Wilson, A. T. M., 338n

Wilson Sir Charles (later Lord Moran), 75

Wilson Committee, 1938, 64n

Winser, de R., D. M., 343n

Wittkower, E., 338n

Witts L. J., 72n, 73n, 471n

Wolf K. M., 439n

Women, mobilisation of, 412, 424

See also Manpower, Mothers in industry

Women’s

Auxiliary Services, 128, 333, 401

Committee for Peace and Democracy, 169n

Group on Public Welfare, 115n, 120n, 132n, 169n, 179n

Institutes, National Federation of, 125n, 169, 177n, 178n, 180n, 319n, 374, 376, 385n, 391n

Voluntary Services, 106, 169, 180n, 229n, 253, 262, 264, 265n, 266, 267, 280n, 282, 290, 291, 298-300, 310, 315n, 319n, 374, 375, 377n, 385n, 391n, 394n, 399n, 415n

Wood, Sir Kingsley—See Chancellor of the Exchequer

Woolton, Lord—See Minister of Food

Wootton, B., 155n

Works, Ministry and Office of—See Ministry and Office of Works

Wright, G. P., 531n

Wyatt, S., 419n

–Y–

Young Men’s Christian Association, 266, 308

Young Women’s Christian Association, 374

Youth organizations, 148

Yudkin, J., 522n