OCR Text |
Show HUNS DIE OF HUNGER. Under-Nourishment and Influenza Responsible Re-sponsible for Many Deaths. Berlin. The imperial health ministry min-istry has issued a memorandum on the- results of the blocknde. It says that from 1915 to 1018, as a result of under-nourishment, 7C3.000 persons died in Germany and 150,000 others died of influenza, owing to loss of their power of resistance. . The fall in the number of births during the war exceeded four million for the empire and more than 2,500,000 for Prussia. The memorandum calculates cal-culates at 50,300,000.000 marks the damage inflicted by the hunger blockade, block-ade, in which it, includes such curious items as unborn persons and the loss .of wages, due to reduced working capacity. |