Abstract
THE efficient heating and lighting of air raid shelters is a problem of interest to many at the present time. A solution suggested by Mr. D. Bellamy, the general manager of the Hull Electricity Undertaking, has much to recommend it. He has prepared a scheme extending the existing assisted wiring scheme so as to include lighting and power plug points in domestic shelters free to the consumer. The offer is to install one lighting and one five-ampere plug socket for a charge of Is. per week for 18 months; alternatively the provision of a ‘warden’ fire in addition to one lighting point and one 5-amp. plug socket for Is. 3d. per week for 18 months. These proposals have been unanimously approved by the Electricity Committee, and will be put into operation as soon as the necessary approval has been obtained to the financing of the scheme. After the scheme has been approved by the Electricity Commissioners it is hoped that it will be put into operation. It is to be hoped that similar facilities will be made widespread by other undertakings throughout the country. Winter is immediately ahead, with much illness to come if the shelter-comfort problem is not dealt with promptly.
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Heating Private Air Raid Shelters. Nature 146, 517–518 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146517c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146517c0