The Questionnaire (Section I)

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WARTIME SOCIAL SURVEY
HEALTH OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION
(SECTION I)
ENQUIRY (New Series) No.21 (C & S)

NO QUESTION TO BE PROMPTED UNLESS OTHERWISE DIRECTED

Serial Number

1. How do you think your present health compares with your health in peacetime?

1a. Reasons for 1, 2, 4 or 5

Slightly Better, Better			Slightly Worse, Worse
No reason given		0	No reason given	0
Recovery from illness		1	Worry and nerves	1
Eating less		2		2
N.W. Bread is better		3	Overwork, tired, rundown	3
More active - less time to worry		4	Strain of more responsibility	4
More active	gardening	5	Specific illness	5
	at home	6	Under-nourishment, less vitality	6
	work	7	Worries about getting food	7
Since I have started work		8	Bread unsuitable	8
More regular hours now		9	Aging	9
More fresh air		10	Working conditions	10
Other			Other

2. How does your weight now compare with your weight last year?

3. What do you do to keep fit?

Does not know	0	Have adequate sleep	5
Nothing special	1	Take Health Salts	6
Take exercise	2	Dress appropriately to weather	7
Fresh air	3	Avoid possible infection	8
Pay attention to food and diet	4	Take Cod Liver Oil, Adexolin and other sources of vitamins	9
		Drink Milk	10
Other

3a. Where do you go, or look, for information on how to keep fit?

4 Do you take any special precautions against catching a cold

Yes	1
No	2

4a. If YES, what?

Gargle, syringe or spray	1	Keep feet warm and dry	6
Take hot drinks at night	2	Take patent medicines	7
Avoid infection from other people	3	Drink milk	8
Fresh air	4	Wear appropriate clothes Adjust clothes to temperature	9
Avoid chills and draughts, keep warm and dry	5	Take Cod Liver Oil or other sources of vitamins	10
Other

5. How do you think colds are spread?

Does not know	0	By other people coughing and sneezing near you	4
Germs	1	Being run down	5
Chills	2	Being too lightly clothed	6
Getting feet wet	3	Stuffy, Overheated atmosphere	7
Other

6. In what ways can you “become more careful about spreading infection when you have a cold?

Does not know	0	Keep away from other people	2
Use handkerchief when sneezing and coughing	1	Use disinfectant	3
Other

7. Do you think other people have become more careful about spreading infection when they sneeze or cough?

8. Do you find that rationing has made you short of handkerchiefs when you have a cold?

Yes	1
No	2

8a. If YES, What substitutes do you use?

9. (To women) when you have a cold do you use men’s handkerchiefs?

10. Do you think it is really necessary to carry a handkerchief when you haven’t a cold?

10a. Why?

Always possibility of coughing and sneezing	1
Handy to have	2
For decency’s sake: is the thing that’s done	3
Other

11. (To parents of children 14 and under). Does each of your children carry a handkerchief?

11a. If YES, do you teach them to use it to cough and sneeze into?

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