1. Rt. Hon. Walter Elliot, 31 August 1939, cited in, The Times, (London 1939; 1 September) 7.
2. R. M. Titmuss, History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Civil Series: Problems of Social Policy, (London 1950) Appendix 9, 562.
3. For an historical overview of evacuations in Britain, see J. A. Glover, Epidemiological aspects of evacuation, British Medical Journal, I, (1940) 629–631. See also C. E. Councell, War and infectious disease, Public Health Reports, 56, (1941) 547–573; C. Jackson, Who Will Take Our Children: The Story of Evacuation in Britain, 1939–45, (London 1985) xiii–xv.
4. Titmuss, op. cit., 355–356.
5. Although information relating to the number of ‘unofficial’ evacuees is generally lacking, R. M. Titmuss estimates that some two million people were privately evacuated between June, September 1939. Ibid., Appendix 2, 543–549.