DEATHS IN GREECE
Starvation And Disease
LONDON, April 14.
Deaths registered in Greece between August and March totalled 320,000, which is more than five-fold higher than the normal death-rate, says the Istanbul correspondent of “The Times.” The rate is even higher among infants and hardly any new-born children are surviving.
The arrival of wheat from Haifa and foodstuffs from Turkey has somewhat eased Hie immediate food problem, but Hie population’s general state of exhaustion and the scarcity of medicines has created a position verging on real disaster. The cold weather resulted in hardship, but it at least prevented epidemics. The arrival of heat is causing diseases to spread with alarming intensity. The most common diseases are stomach ulcers, tuberculosis, and malaria. Because of the lack of soap, lice have become a real scourge, and the authorities are advising men and women to shave their heads.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 171, 16 April 1942, Page 5
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