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Show LAUGHTER OF CHILD SCARCE IN POLAND "In all the time I wns In Poland. I scarcely onco saw a child laugh," declared Dr Horry Plots, discoverer of the typhus baccllus, In u report to the European Relief Council on ineil-Icnl ineil-Icnl conditions among tho Jewish population popu-lation of Poland, based on his recent investigations there for tho Jewlbh Joint Distribution Committee. "The most deplorable sight of nil tho miseries in Poland Is the condition condi-tion of the children," Dr. Plot, suld. "Infant mortality Is exceedingly high because of under-nourlshiuent and the high percentage of contagious diseases. In lnrge part mothers must resort to artificial feeding ns they are unable to nurse tholr children. In many cities I saw underfed children, suffering with diseases, wandering about the streets with no pluco to go, begging for bread." Tuberculosis has become prevalent ninong tho Jewish children, largely due to the overcrowded conditions In which they nro forced to live, their lack of nourishing food and warm clothing, according to Dr. Plotz. Typhus, which killed thousands of Jews Inst winter In tho worst epidemic , Polend has ever seen will recur again, he uld, as conditions are much worse umong the Jews than over before. "Favus, a contnglous skin disease, ' Is now rapidly spreading from child to child," bo continued. "In Vllnn there are 11,000 cases among tho Jewish Jew-ish children alone. Smnllpox, too, Is prevalent hroughout Poland and tho J Ukrnlno and children, with wide- ., fcproud eruptions and temperature, 1 have been seen running about the streets. There are thousands of cases tvery year, which vaccination would ' prevent, but there Is no vncclne." ' Dr. Plotz told how In Llthuaninn , vllluges he found children, six and oven yenrs old, unable to wulk or , talk, tho result of malnutrition. In 1 ' ' legions where whole towns had been destroyed during tho war, he found families crowded in miserable dug- ji outs. |