ood I or Emergencies
Sleeping accommodation, sanitation, and heating are not the v requirements in shelters. Food is equally important. It s to be remembered that many people will have come urriedly from their ruined homes, and that others may wish to go straight to the shelters from work in the evening or back to their work in the morning. Lord Woolson, the Minister of Food, has learnt from his own inquiries the need of making provision roviqon for emergency feeding, and regards it as a part of his functions to see that food is supplied when public utility services have broken down or been curtailed. Already the Ministry has set up 58 emergency centres and is preparing to provide zoo in all when and where they may be required. But be is anxious—and in this he is well advised—to make the utmost use of voluntary workers and their organisations, and of professional caterers so far as they can meet the need- coffee-stall men, for example, have just the right experience. What is needed is an organisation which will attend to the situation from the top, ensuring supplies of food and the means of transporting it ; yet capable of lending itself with elasticity to ever-changing conditions and giving free scope to the initiative and personal knowledge of voluntary workers.
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