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Show VIENNA DEATH RATE BECOMES APPALLING Condition of Children Even More Harrowing, Declares Authority on City's Desperate Plight. . Five years of famine hnvo resulted to greatly Increased mortullty nnd morbidity In Vienna which before the war was counted as one of the healthiest health-iest cities In Europe. Figures prcputcd by Dr. Gustave Bohu, head of the 1 ' Vienna Health Department, show that In 1018 the death rate was 15.3 per thousand. In 1018 the rule wns 'J2.5 per thousnnd, an Increase of moie than 47 per cent Professor ITnns Spel of the University Uni-versity of Vienna, says that "even more terrible thnn tho mo-tnllty statistics sta-tistics nro those referrlnc to tho condition con-dition of children and their mothers. Owlns to undor-nourlshnient few mothers moth-ers enn nurse their babies, and tho mill; shortage nffocts not only Infants, but all children In spite of n) that has been done to hofp. At Professor Clemens Plrquet's clinic In the university uni-versity somo B4.840 children were ex-minod ex-minod In 1018. Only 4,037 of 'hose er about ono-thirteenth wero pasted as skin good, fat good; 28,600 were pale and thin, or very pale and very thin. "The health of these children shows most disquieting features. Skin disease, rachitis and Barlow's dlseaso are rife. "The chief medical officer of Vienna asks, 'What la going to happen to these under-fed children, In whose bodies the germ of tuberculosis Is latent, when they reach the twenties, at which time It becomes active)' " To combat these conditions the American Amer-ican Relief Administration of which Herbert Hoover Is chairman fed last winter In the city of Vienna some 800,000 of the destitute and undernourished under-nourished children, supplying them with a substantial meal of Amerlcun food, served In a number of large kitchens opened for that purpose. The conditions In Vienna are more er less typical of those In Poland and ether countries of Central bnd Eastern Europe. Last year the Relief Admin-0 Admin-0 titration was able to reach some 3.500,- 000 under-nourished children and this winter the program calls for the feeding feed-ing of a like number, but eight of the great charitable organizations of ,. America have united under the name of the European Relief Council, of which Mr. Hoover is the chairman. Tho child feeding task will be carried en not only by the American Relief Administration Ad-ministration but by the American Red Cross, tho Amerlcun Friends' Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, the Knights of Columbus, the y. M. C. A. nnd Y. W. C. A. An appeal ap-peal for $33,000,000 has been made nnd tho organizations named have Joined In raising the sum. |