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APPENDIX.
THIRTY-ONE TOWNS AND THEIR POPULATIONS.
TOWN
Population
on 30th
TOWN
September.
Great Yarmouth
22,379
Margate
Population
on 30th September.
14,176
Lowestoft
20,119
Broadstairs
4,383
Southwold
1,882
Aldeburgh
1,428
Ramsgate Minster
13,882
1,438
Felixstowe
7,639
Sandwich
2,420
Harwich
9,182
Deal
11,632
Frinton and Walton
5,235
Dover
18,971
Clacton
9,580
Folkestone & Sandgate
17,500
Southend-on-Sea
61,894
Hythe
5,048
Ipswich
88,455
Ashford
21,557
Colchester
48,462
Canterbury
20,700
Hastings
37,200
Bexhill
12,563
Eastbourne
27,000
New Romney
1,615
Lyda
1,360
Rye
3,250
Seaford
4,830
Newhaven
4,841
ANNEX II.
COMPULSORY EVACUATION OF THE THIRTY-ONE TOWNS AND BRIGHTON.
Summary of Conclusions of Memorandum by the Ministries of Home Security, Health and War Transport and the Board of Education.
(1) That the aim should be to evacuate the thirty-one towns, (i.e.
the existing evacuation towns, excluding the Brighton Group) as one operation beginning at Z-15 days. Even allowing for some disloɑntion the move should be completed before Z-7,1.0., before the worst dislocation due to bombing is likely. (2) That the coastal towns within the two railway groups, which
include the four inland towns Ipswich and Colchester, and Ashford and Canterbury, should be evacuated at the same time as these towns. Although the aim would be to evacuate all thirty-one towns simultaneously, the plans should enable the two groups containing the inland towns to be evacuated sooner if necessary.
(3) That, notwithstanding \-]? in scheme for the separate
evacuation of school children from the thirum no towns should be kept in being, together with plans for the subsequent removal of the rest of the population.
(4) That the grave objections to the evacuation of the Brighton
Group of towns should be carefully weighed before any request is formulated for the preparation of a scheme of evacuation.
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