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Show H LAUGHTER OF CHILD SCARCE IN POLAND H HJ "In nil the time I was In Poland, 1 B acarcely once saw n child laugh," HH declared T)r Harry IMotr, discoverer of B typhus baccllus. In a ruport to HBj be European Itellef Council on med- B ' cal conditions among the Jewish popu- HJ latlon of 1'olnnd, based on his recent HJ Inveatlgatlons there for the Jewish H Uolnt Distribution Committee. HB "The most deplornhle sight of all B th,B mlsurles In Poland In thu condl- HH ilon of thu children," Or. I'lotz said. Hfli "Infant mortality Is exceedingly high B Ibecausc of undcr-nourlshniont and the B '''' Percentage of contaglotis dlvcanc. B! 3 lRr Pnrt mothers must resort to HBj artificial feeding n they urc unalilo to B Iiurae their children. In tunny cllle HJ saw underfed children, Hufferlng with HJ ilBeaxos, wiiiiilerltig nhout the. Hlreuts HJ -Willi no place to go, begging for hrcml." Bl Tuberculosis has becoinu prevnlent HJ among the Jewish children, largely H' lue to the overcronded conditions In ?' rhlch they are forced to live, their ack of nourishing food and wnrm pBK lotiilng, uccordliig to Dr. IMotr. HB rjyphus, which killed thoiioands of HJi Jews last winter In tho worst epidemic B I'oland has ever seen will recur again. HJi fee laid, us conditions arc much worse BK among thcJews than ever before. HBj "Favus, n contagious bkln disease, HE; .Is now rapidly spreading from child HB) 1 child," he continued. "In Villi ffLw- Inhere nre 11,000 cases among the Jew- IBBf iHh children nlono. Smallpox, too, Is Hl provulent hroughout Poland nnd the PBffj UUrnlne und children, with wide- LX apreud eruptions und temperature, ffjfli' havo been seen running about the H8V atrects. There arc thousands of cases rajS every cnr, which vaccination would HJB prevent, but there Is uo vncclue." BQH Ir. I'lotz told how In Lithuanian BtK Tllliiges ho found children, six and BB aoren yenra old, unuble to walk or 1 talk, tho result of malnutrition. In IV jreglons where whole towns had been BB deittroyed during the war, he fouud BjjB s families crowded In miserable dug- KiW ouls' |
