APPENDIX 9

Government Evacuation Scheme

Total number billeted in all areas

(Chapter XVIII)

	England and Wales					Scotland					Total for Great Britain (all classes)
	Unaccompanied children	Mothers and children	Teachers and helpers	Other adults.1	All classes	Unaccompanied children	Mothers and children	Teachers and helpers	Other adults1	All classes
September 1939	765,000	426,500	89,000	18,000	1,298,500	62,000	99,000	13,000	1,000	175,000	1,476,500
January 1940	420,000	56,000	43,400	3,380	522,780	37,600	8,900	3,100	200	49,800	572,580
August 1940	421,000	57,000	27,000	14,00	519,000	17,900	7,400	1,600	100	27,000	546,000
February 1941	480,500	571,000	25,000	262,2002	1,338,700	11,800	15,700	1,000	1,500	30,0003	1,368,700
September 1941	435,700	450,000	21,000	157,000	1,063,700	25,600	85,000	1,300	29,700	141,6004	1,205,300
March 1942	332,000	279,000	18,000	109,000	738,000	18,400	47,400	1,400	13,400	80,6004	818,600
September 1942	236,000	196,000	13,000	85,000	530,000	13,600	31,500	1,200	8,200	54,5005	584,500
March 1943	181,000	148,000	9,000	68,000	406,000	9,500	23,000	1,000	6,500	40,0006	446,000
September 1943	137,000	124,000	6,400	55,000	322,400	7,800	18,800	900	5,500	33,0007	355,400
March 1944	124,000	132,000	5,400	58,000	319,400	6,000	15,700	700	7,600	30,0008	349,400
September 1944	284,000	601,000	6,800	121,000	1,012,800	5,100	15,900	400	6,000	27,4009	1,040,200
March 1945	132,000	234,000	4,000	59,000	438,000	1,700	11,200	100	3,200	16,20010	454,200
September 1945	13,250	—	—	—	13,250	150	3,550	—	1,800	5,50011	18,750

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Footnotes

¹ Includes homeless persons, expectant mothers, children in nurseries, camps and hostels, invalids, old people, the crippled, the blind, civil defence personnel, emergency medical service staff and war workers up to April 1942. The last three groups are excluded thereafter.

² Mainly homeless people; including 66,2000 such people billeted in evacuation areas.

³ Including 11,700 evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

⁴ Including an unknown number of evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

⁵ June 1942. Including an unknown number of evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

⁶ December 1942. Including an unknown number of evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

⁷ June 1943. Including an unknown number of evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

⁸ December 1943. Including 4,300 evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

⁹ June 1944. Including 5,100 evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

¹⁰ April 1945. Including 10,600 evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.

¹¹ October 1945. Including 850 evacuees from English areas billeted in Scotland.