HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
UNITED KINGDOM CIVIL SERIES
Edited by W.K. HANCOCK
PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL POLICY
By Richard M. Titmuss
LONDON 1950
HMSO
CONTENTS
Page
PREFACE
ix
PART I: THE EXPECTED WAR
CHAPTER I: THE EXPECTED ATTACK
3
CHAPTER II: THE EXPECTED CONSEQUENCES
Physical Casualties
12
Material Damage
15
Social Distress, Disorganisation and Loss of Morale
16
CHAPTER III: PREPARATIONS: EVACUATION
23
CHAPTER IV: PREPARATIONS: THE CARE OF THE HOMELESS
45
CHAPTER V: PREPARATIONS: THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE
i
Introduction
54
ii
The Central Problems of Planning
55
iii
Hospitals before the War
66
iv
From Plans to Preparations
73
CHAPTER VI: AUGUST 1939
87
PART II: THE INVISIBLE WAR
CHAPTER VII: EVACUATION: THE EXODUS
100
CHAPTER VIII: EVACUATION: THE RECEPTION
110
CHAPTER IX: THE PHASE OF UNCERTAINTY: SEPTEMBER 1939–MAY 1940
137
CHAPTER X: EVACUATION AND THE SOCIAL SERVICES: SEPTEMBER 1939–MAY 1940
i
Disorganisation and Discontinuity
142
ii
Problems of Administration and Finance
150
iii
Ebb Tide of Evacuation
171
CHAPTER XI: HOSPITALS IN TRANSITION: SEPTEMBER 1939–MAY 1940
i
Conflicting Needs
183
ii
Progress and Consolidation
184
iii
Towards a Better Balance
193
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CHAPTER XII: DIGRESSION ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES
i
Nature of the Problem
203
ii
First Example: Residential Nurseries
203
iii
Second Example: Health and Welfare Services
216
iv
Review
232
PART III: THE BATTLES
CHAPTER XIII: THE ENCIRCLING FRONT
239
CHAPTER XIV: THE CHALLENGE OF LONDON'S HOMELESS
i
Deficiencies in Preparation
251
ii
Crisis in London Country
257
iii
Crisis in London Region
268
iv
Resettlement of the Homeless
272
v
Review
296
CHAPTER XV: THE ATTACK ON THE PORTS AND PROVINCIAL CITIES
304
CHAPTER XVI: ARITHMETIC OF STRESS
322
CHAPTER XVII: ARITHMETIC OF STRAIN
337
PART IV: THE LONG YEARS
CHAPTER XVIII: EVACUATION: SECOND MOVEMENT
355
CHAPTER XIX: SOCIAL CARE IN THE RECEPTION AREAS
i
Welfare Services
370
ii
Children's Hostels and Social Workers
378
iii
Social and Economic Aspects of Billeting
387
CHAPTER XX: FAMILIES IN TROUBLE
404
CHAPTER XXI: EVACUATION: THE LAST PHASE
i
Evacuation Movements 1942–4
424
ii
The Return Home
431
CHAPTER XXII: HOSPITALS IN DEMAND
i
The Test of 1940–1
442
ii
Problems of Distribution and Voluntary Hospital Finance
450
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CHAPTER XXIII: HOSPITALS FOR WAR VICTIMS
i
Quality of Hospital Provision
459
ii
Scope and Quality of the Emergency Medical Service
466
CHAPTER XXIV: HOSPITALS FOR THE SICK
i
Two Basic Problems
485
ii
The Position of the Civilian Sick
487
iii
The Price Paid
490
iv
Towards a National Hospital Service
502
CHAPTER XXV: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
i
The Social Services: Decision and Development
506
ii
Wartime Health: Complexities and Contradictions
517
APPENDICIES
1.
Items in the Planning of Evacuation (Chapter III)
541
2.
Voluntary Evacuation on the Outbreak of War (Chapter VII)
543
3.
Unaccompanied schoolchildren evacuated in 1939 (Chapter VII)
550
4.
Proportion of mothers and children evacuated in 1939 (Chapter VII)
552
5.
Proportion of evacuees received to numbers expected in 1939 (Chapter VII)
553
6.
A Note on the Law of Settlement and Removal as it affected Local Government in England and Wales in 1939 (Chapter XII)
554
7.
Weight of Bombs dropeed on the United Kingdom during 1939–45 (Chapter XVI)
555
8.
Civilian Casualties in Gt. Britain caused by enemy action during 1939–45 (Chapter XVI)
557
9.
Government Evacuation Scheme. Total number billeted during 1939–45 (Chapter XVIII)
562
10.
Government Evacuation Scheme. Total number evacuated 1939–41 (Chapter XVIII)
563
11.
Government Evacuation Scheme. Total number evacuated 1914–45 (Chapter XVIII)
564
INDEX
567
INDEX OF PLACE NAMES 591
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
598
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