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“Along these lines, here is a nice breakfast story: Earlier in the fall, the journalist Kingsley Martin visited the massive Tilbury shelter in the East End, a margarine warehouse that nightly drew up to fourteen thousand people … [who] paid little attention to sanitation []. 'They urinate and defecate in every part of the building. The process is helped by the convenience of the margarine in cardboard cases which can be piled up into useful mounds behind which people can dig themselves in and sleep and defecate and urinate in comfort.' He did not know whether this margarine had then been distributed to food markets in the city [].” The Splendid and The Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson, p. 533.