RAPID APPROACH TO NORMAL
European Health Level
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, May 22.
Major-General Draper, chief of the public health branch of SHADE, said today that health in Germany is excellent and from personal observation he had found the Germans more robust and better nourished than many people be bad seen in Britain. "Germany has sufficient food for 60 <!ays,” he said. “After that there may be serious developments. The Germans certainly tire not going to Ret more than the people of the' liberated countries." Health and nutrition conditions of Europe were not nearly as catastrophic as he expected to find them, he said. Only the poor suffered extremely, as there was food even in the occupied countries for those able to pay for it. The public health figures were rapidly approaching 1939 levels, which was tremendously encouraging considering the number of deaths duo to violence.
General Draper said that Europe, with millions Jiving under abnormal conditions, was set for a typhus epidemic of catastrophic proportions, lint that tins did not develop because of preventive measures.
Referring Io Holland, General Draper wiid : “We expected to find terrible conditions there, but did not need the special teama which stood by for action.”
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Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 202, 24 May 1945, Page 7
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