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Show HK e. VIENNA DEATH RATE BECOMES APPALLING VE j Hj Condition of Children Even More B Harrowing, Declares Authority H I on City's Desperate Plight. fB 1 live yenrs of famine have resulted H,! to iTeatly Increased mortality nml BH ; Morbidity In Vienna which beforo tlie TiB ' war was counted as one of llic lienlth SHI I Jaat dtlci In Hurone. Figures prcpurcd Hfll; bj Dr. Gustavo Holm, bend of the BBS Vienna Health Deportment, s.w that BBS In 1013 the dtnth rnte was 15.3 per HI thousand. In 1018 the rote was '..3 BS per thousand, an Increase of more than HHfm 47 per cent. BBtl' Professor flans Spel of the Unl- IHI vanity 'of Vienna, says that "even BaB more tortible than the mortality sta- BH' tlstlca nre those lufcrrlng to the con BK dltlon of children and their mothers. IR' Owing to undernourishment few ma'h- BBB cm can nurse their babies, and the milk HH ehortagn affects not only Infants, but AS ' all children In spite of si' that has KH J torn done to help. At Professor US j Clemens rirquet'a clinic In the unl J varsity some 54,840 children were ei- IB aalned In 1018. Only 4.G.17 of these BH f r about ono-thlrteenth wero paseed as BH i akin good, fat food; 23,009 were pale Hj i and thin, or Tery pate and very thin. K i "The health of these children shows RHp ;l neat disquieting features. Skin disease, BM' ! rachitis and Ilarlow'B dlkciise are rife. BB "The chief medical officer-of Vienna BBj i asks, 'What Is going to happen to these Bffl! ander-fed children, In whose bodies the KS'tti Ir of tuberculosis Is latent, when Btwi they reach the twenties, at which time Hjfjf j M becomes active!' " HUB To combat these conditions the Amer- HHl lean Relief Administration of which KB Herbert Hoover Is chalminn fed last D winter In tho city of Vienna some HB 100,000 of the destitute and nndor- HB aourlshod children, supplylr.g them HJl' with n substantial meal of American Ha food, served In a number of lurge Hi kitchens opened for that purpose. Hji Tim conditions In Vleimn nra more f pr less tjplcnl of those In 1'olnnd und Bjj lOtber countries of Central and Kastcrn H (Europe. Lost year the Hollcf Admin- HJil Istrutton was able to reach some 3,500,- BJ! jOOO undernourished children and this C Inter the program calls for tho feed of a like number, but eight of the H. arcnt chnrltable organizations of HjS? America' have united under tho name HS at the ' European Itcllcf Council, or HjHl Which Mr. Hoover Is the clmlrmnn. HH e chI,l feclUnK tnU wtU bt carried P n not only by the AmerlcnrTTtellef Art- HJBf mlnlslnitlon but by the American lied HB (Cross, the American Friends' Service HB Committee (Quakers), tho Jewish Joint HHP IJIslrlhutlon Committee, the Federal HE Council of the Churches of Christ In H ' America, tho Knights of Columbus, the Hw 1. M. a A. and Y. W. a A. An ap- HKj Keal for $113,000,000 has been made arid Bt the orgutitratlons named have Joined WP " raising tho |
