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Show Ij " j Austria's Death Rate v VIKNNA. .Inn. 4 Ths present dpath rate In Austria is wlttiout a para lie-1 in hIMory, according to ths Vienna Arbviter-seitung. Arbviter-seitung. lu largely to undernourishment he causa of ths food huriMge, death, exceed ex-ceed births by 1W p-r cent, the Arbeit erseitunr states. Only a small percent- jce of toe deaths come from dieease not dlretly attributable to malnutrition. "Soma days ago," the Arbeiterseintung declares, "the lrt statistical weekly report re-port of ths Vienna town council was published. pub-lished. It shows a mortality increasim; from month to month. In the firet week in February, thera wers 711 deaths ami IK'2 in the laM. "Influenza may have been a slight f set or", but death from disease wa sreatly tncreaed by luck of proper foori. Winter in now appruarhing and t ha death rate wicreaet a daily. Kspevially among children ars conditions - threatening." threat-ening." lr, Clemens Plrouet, the eminent child specfaliHt, formerly, of Johns Hopkins linivsnil V In a. Ii i.. t a UarkaM XJm.-M. chairman of the Kuropean relief council, made the following statement: "As economic condition, sre at pre- i ent in Auatria and without a big chasige ic peace condltlona. the next harvest will bring us no farther than four or fiv months snd the condition of the next winter may he worse than this." Vienna's child populstlon up to the sge of 15 Is about 140.0ifl and only 7 of these are getting sufficient nourishment To svert widespread starvation, not only among Auetrianchlldren, but among Polish. Csecho-Simakian and Hungarian, the European relief council was recently formed comprlslrg the American relief administration, the American Red Croes. the American Friends' service committee (Quaker), the Jewleh olnt distribution committee, the federal council of churches of Christ In America, the Knights of Columbus, the T. M. C. A and T ,W C. A. . |