The Role of the Extended Family in a Disaster

1. World Mental Health, Bulletin of the World Federation for Mental Health, Vol. 5, No. I, London, Feb., 1953.

2. Manual of Basic Training, Vol. i, Pamphlet No. 2, London, H.M.S.O., pp. 42-3. 1952. The Home Office Civil Defence Manual on Welfare refers to "the importance of the family in a child's development and the impossibility of providing children with any completely adequate sub-stitute for the care of their own parents...." It also states that " Every effort should be made to preserve family contacts..."

3. HOMANS, GEORGE C. The Human Group, p. 263-263. London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.

4. The results of this work are expected to be published this year, together with a companion study on the kinship system of Italianates in London, as one of the Monographs on Social Anthropology of the London School of Economics.

5. Joint Committee of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee. Maternity in Great Britain, P. 18o. London, Oxford University Press.

6. SHELDON, J. H. The Social Medicine of Old Age Nuffield Foundation, 1948.

7. TITMUSS, R. M. Problems of Social Policy London, H.M.S.O. and Longmans Green, 1950. The account of war-time evacuation in this book suggests that Canvey's experience had been foreshadowed. Between the end of June and the beginning of September 1939 about 2,000,000 persons privately evacuated themselves from cities to safer areas, presumably for the most part to relatives, which was many more than the numbers moved under the Government's scheme.