U.N. APPEAL FOR CHILDREN
CHRISTCHURCH TOTAL NOW £6646/15/8
Donations amounting to £6646 15s 8d toward the United Nations Appeal for Children had been received by the Christchurch district committee for the appeal up to last Friday evening.
The. fund has supplied raw materials for clothing and shoes for a million children in the European-assisted countries, but 10 times as many still need shoes and underwear, dresses and jackets, according to a bulletin issued by the committee. The fund has made no further allocations ior assistance of this kind because it lacks money. Protection is being brought to millions through a vaccination campaign against tuberculosis, but so Car UNICEF has been able to do very little for children who are already victims of tuberculosis or for other sick children.
In Asia, the emergency needs of children can be gauged by multiplying many times over the numbers of distress in Europe and the Middle East, the bulletin says. Vaccines are needed against tuberculosis, DDT to fight malaria, typhus, dysentery, infant diarrhoea and other insect-borne diseases, penicillin to treat syphilis, arsenicals to treat yaws and the sulphanilomides for trachoma, which leaves many children blind.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26203, 29 August 1950, Page 8
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