ABSTRACT
In spite of organization at the station, the children were very unevenly distributed in the wards—some having one-twelfth of their available billets used, others five-sixths, whilst in one outlying area the billets were completely used up and children had to be retransported to another. The Billeting Organization would have to take steps to provide camps, huts, and unoccupied houses should the numbers of children and their mothers outstrip available accommodation. The London Women’s Voluntary Services asked the Chairman of the Cambridge Women Citizens’ Association to suggest a local representative of the Women’s Voluntary Services to assist the Local Authority if required to deal with problems of evacuation. The rapid fall in the numbers of mothers with young children remaining in Cambridge seems to show that their evacuation was on the whole an unworkable proposition, and that not nearly enough imaginative thinking went into the Government’s planning of the scheme.
