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Show I LONG DEATH LIST I Great Mortality and Sickness in Europe Result of Detestable Detest-able Quality of Foodstuffs. ATHENS, Oct. 30. Bad food and the lack of all food among the poor because of European .war conditions, J are set down as one of tho main causes of great mortality and sickness, in tho official health report of Athens, which says: "During the month of July there has been a very great increase in sickness, due certainly to the bad food of the population, to the detestable quality of the foodstuffs, and to the complete want of some of the chief articles of alimentation." The death list is given at 510, or about seventeen a day. Based on this report, the Messager of Athens, makes a plea to the entente powers for "more bread bofore more cannon." "Let us have bread," it says, "from charity, from military or political reasons, or from solidarity. Let us have bread! Read the municipal munici-pal statistics." It declares that what England and France know, as privation priva-tion would be luxury for the majority of the Greeks, who bofore tire war could hardly feed themselves, and since the blockade of Greek ports have been under a veritable famine. Rice. I dry beans and peas, the chief foods of I the poor have disappeared or reached fabulous prices making them impossible impos-sible for the poor, it asserts, while meat, fish, eggs, poultry, butter and ! milk were never possible for the poor I except on holidays and are now entirely entire-ly beyond their reach. ' -on . |