Labels:text | newspaper | black and white | font OCR: Table Shelters Suggested As Solution To Problem Of Congested Area Dwellers GRAVE MALARIA DANGER ALSO STRESSED A STRONG table, over which a blanket could be hung and atop which a mattress or mattresses should be placed, is recommended by a reader as a solution of the air raid shelter problem of dwellers In congested city areas where there is no open space available for dig- ging trench shelters. Today is the last day of "Trench Shelter Week" and this reader's contribution is a most timely one. His remarks on the mosquito breeding danger are also of the greatest importance and should be carefully heeded by all. He writes: "Now that the pro- table, to probe the debris for air- blem for shelters is again a daily or exit holes, or to prop the table topic. I should like to put forward up in case of danger of collapse. a suggestion for the many town "Do not look for shelter behind people for whom there is no vacant the piles of firewood that nowadays plot in which to dig a shelter. are seen in every street of the city. "Both in Germany and England If a bomb drops nearby, the blast it has been found that a strong will blow these piles right across table on the top of which a mattress the five foot way on to the wall is placed, with blankets hanging of the house and you have every down on all four sides, offers quite chance of being crushed. You' will good table protection, especially if the however, be safer behind a house (and is placed under a stair-case wall which is protected by a pile ci of course, on the ground fire wood in front, as the wood will floor). break the blast and also protect the WHEN TO ACT wall of the house against bomb fragments. "Much bigger and stronger The shutters in the wall, facing houses than usually found here have these firewood piles. must of course collapsed on such simple, impro- be closed as soon as the precaution- vised shelters in Europe, and the ary alarm goes (but do not close up- people underneath, after removal of stairs windows). Also the doors be- hind these walls must be closed tach the debris, were found safe. I at- a sketch which illustrates If this is done, firewood piles arı the idea. a good thing; but again do no stand directly behind them. RESS TRENCHES AND DUGOUTS If at all possible all trenches and one-man dugout shelters should ht covered. A simple timber rcof about 116 feet off the ground, with 1 to 2 feet of earth ion it, is excel- BUCKETS lent. There is infinitely more ris! from shell fragments (everything shot up comes down) than fron Use strongest fable in house and direct bomb hits. Also, when it place it on ground floor, if possible trenches and dugouts, do not lea: underneath & staircase. Place against the earth when planes arı blankets between table top and overhead. Earth shocks can kill a mattress and let them overhang well as bomb or shell fragments and all round. Fill buckets with water. blast, while you will be perfectly safe from nearby hits if you keep "As soon as a siren goes, the one off the earth walls of the shelter: In charge of a household should get "But most importarit of all-skee their table shelter ready and get the the trenches and dugouts dry. Yo children underneath. It can be will save yourself, and thousand done with'n a minute or two. Also will undoubtedly be saved by takin offices-without outside shelters- shelter in trenches and dugout could easily make similar provision but just as surely you will be kille for the'r clerical' staffs on the and you will help to kill or in ground-floors of their buildings. capacitate tens of thousands of th "If they have some gunny bags population if. through your las! ready. filled with wood shavings. ness or carelessness dried la lang or similar stuff. these water in your shelter to accumulate you can be placed over desks and tables to stagnate and to breed mos as soon as the precautionary alarm quitoes. is given. When planes are over- MALARIA DANGER head. the staff takes shelter under- neath these desks and tables. "Once the deadly species (Anc pheles) starts breeding and they bif "Of greatest 'importance is the you and your children your neigh provision of a bucket or two of bours and friends, malaria' will tak water in these improvised shelters, its heavy toll. And once malari as we'l as of some towels and hand- spreads in thickly populate kerchiefs. Th's is in order to prevent. districts (think of Ceylon hard suffocation through dust and to ly when more than . thousands decade allow of quenching one's thirst if ag died week) the incident of d'seare an ever rescue is late. The dust of a collapsing house is among all as big a danger for those inside as nationalities will be far bigger tha death .c'asses crashirg beams, crumbling walls anything an attacking air force ca and fall'ng masonry. So one's nose do. and mouth must be covered with & "I must add that the risk wet cloth which shou'd be soaked at breed'ng mosquitces in covered shel intervals. Hence the buckets of ters is far greater than in cpe water. shelters, so that special care mu! "If there is a crow bar in the |be taken in covered shelters. If on house, or a length of iron pipe, or [of the local organizations, under th a strong piece of wood of about the direction of the health office, coul same length, it should be taken un- get up a squad or two of full t'm der the table as well. It may help shelter inspectors whose role duty to clear some space around the would be to Inspect all trenches an dugouts at short interva's, to gi
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