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WARTIME SOCIAL SURVEY
OCCUPATIONAL CLOTHING ENQUIRY
NEW SERIES No.14

1. Do you as a family pool your clothing coupons?

YES 1
NO 2
ONE PERSON 3

2. Have you received a supplementary award of clothing coupons?

No___0

3. How many coupons have you spent?

(+ write number in code column)

(a) Your own coupons +

(b) Supplementary award +

(c) From members of your family + TOTAL

4. If (c) (Q.3) has any member of your family gone short as a result? If so, who?

5. If YES, of what clothing?

6. Has the family used any of your coupons? If so, who?

7. If YES, how many?

8. What is a year’s clothing requirement for your job?

Protective clothing:

Other clothing:

Underwear:

Footwear:

9. Are you able, or unable, to obtain all your essential requirements with your coupons? IF UNABLE what do you need that you connect get?

ABLE 1
UNABLE 2

10. Do you buy more, as many, or fewer clothes now as compared with the year before rationing?

MORE 1
AS MANY 2
FEWER 3

11. If MORE, or FEWER what is the reasons?

12. Has the quality of clothes remained the same?

SERIAL NUMBER:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
SHIRTS UNERWEAR FOOTWEAR
OVER COAT MACK INTOSHES RAIN-COAT, WATER-PROOFS COMPLETE SUITS COSTUMES JACKETS SHAWLS TROUSERS FLANNEL (a) OTHER TROUSERS SLACKS SKIRT SHORTS (b) OVERALLS, APRONS, NON-INDUSTRIAL OVERALLS INDUSTRIAL CARDIGAN JUMPER SWEATERS PULL-OVER [Text Missing] SHIRTS OTHER SHIRTS BLOUSES VEST PANTS KNICKERS COMBINATIONS SLIPS, PETICOATS, CAMIKNICKERS SOCKS, STOCKINGS BRASSIERES, CORSETS, SUSPENDER BELTS NIGHT-WEAR PYJAMAS NIGHT-DRESS, NIGHT-SHIRTS HAND-KERCHIEFS BOOTS(a) SHOES(b) SLIPPERS(c) INDUSTRIAL RUBBER BOOTS WELLINGTONS CLOGS OTHER INCLUDING KNITTING WOOL, SCARVES & SPECIAL CLOTHES
(a) (b) (a) (b) (c)
12. How have you spent your clothing coupons? (From 1st June, 1941 till now) Write in items
Number of items
Price:
Number of coupons given:
13. Have you obtained any clothing (a) By secondhand Purchase? 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
(b) Supplied by Employer? Personally 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
impersonally 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
(c) Passed on from Friend or Relative? 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
(d) Have you given coupons for any of these? 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
If YES enter No. of coupons above.
14. Have any of these been bought through a Clothing Club? 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
15. Which of these items are needed especially for work? 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
16. What clothing do you intend to get with your remaining coupons? Write in items. IF NO COUPONS LEFT, encircle o

17. Is there any particular damage caused to your clothing by your work?

18. If YES, what clothing Is affected and what is the damage?

Items of Clothing Description of Damage
Protective Clothing 1
Outer Clothing. 2
Underwear 3
Footwear 4

19. If Yes, mat is the cause of the damage?

Cause ORIGIN
Normal Dirt 1
Abnormal Perspiration 2
Abnormal Wear and Tear 3
Burning 4
Corrosion 5
Cuts and Abrasions from Metal Smart 6
Cuts and Abrasions from Other Causes 7
Dust and Metal Fillings 8
Humidity 9
Odour 10
Oil, Crease and Soluble Oils 11
Weather 12
Wetness 13
Other 14

20. Apart from coupons and cost, Is there any shortage or difficulty In obtaining clothing necessary for your Job?

Secondhand

Not Secondhand

If YES, what clothing?

Secondhand ......... Not Secondhand .........

21. Do you know of any friend or relative who is having difficulty In obtaining clothes essential to his/her work?

22. If YES, please give following particulars.

MAN 1
WOMAN 2

Kind of Work .........

Essential clothes with which difficulty is being met .........

23. Do you tend to buy clothes each week haphazardly, or do you plan and save up for them?

Haphazard. 1
Plan and Save 2

24. Were you well stocked with clothes when rationing began?

Well stocked 1
Fairly Well stocked 2

No stock 3

COMMENT

1. .........

2. .........

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