APPENDIX 3
Number and proportion of unaccompanied schoolchildren evacuated from certain areas on the outbreak of war
(Chapter VII)
County borough1 No. of children (approx.) No. of children evacuated % of children evacuated Newcastle 39,800 28,300 71 Gateshead 14,900 10,598 71 South Shields 12,300 3,826 31 Tynemouth 4,600 1,481 32 Total 71,600 44,205 62 Sunderland 25,100 8,289 33 West Hartlepool 8,000 2,881 36 Middlesborough 16,700 5,171 31 Total 49,800 16,341 33 Leeds 57,400 18,935 33 Bradford 29,900 7,484 25 Total 87,300 26,419 30 Bootle 10,500 7,123 68 Liverpool 99,500 60,795 61 Wallasey 3,500 2,662 76 Birkenhead 15,100 9,350 62 Total 128,600 79,930 62 Manchester 96,000 66,300 69 Salford 23,800 18,043 76 Total 119,800 84,343 70 Rotherham 4,100 332 8 Sheffield 35,600 5,338 15 Derby 12,700 3,438 27 Nottingham 21,600 4,763 22 Total 74,000 13,871 19 Walsall 2,000 360 18 West Bromwich 6,900 1,786 26 Smethwick 9,300 2,219 24 Birmingham 101,000 25,241 25 Coventry 15,400 3,082 20 Total 134,600 32,688 24 Portsmouth 39,900 11,970 30 Southampton 30,200 11,175 37 Total 70,100 23,145 33 Grand Total 736,000 320,945 44 London (Administrative County) 490,000 241,000 49 Total county boroughs and London A.C. 1,226,000 562,000 46 Accompanied schoolchildren2 Glasgow 170,225 71,393 42 Edinburgh 65,900 18,451 28 Dundee 28,030 10,260 37 Clydebank 7,795 2,993 38 Rosyth 1,500 540 36 Total for Scotland 273,450 103,637 38
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Footnotes
1 Only in a few instances outside London was the whole area under the local education authority evacuated. Most county boroughs included both neutral and evacuation zones. The figures given refer to the latter.
2 In Scotland, schoolchildren did not go out in school parties but were evacuated with their mothers.