HEALTH IN EUROPE
OCCUPATION SEQUELS
LONDON, March 13. A French Government spokesman in Paris said that nearly three-quarters of the male population and over half of the female population of France lost one-eighth of their normal weight during the German occupation. Child mortality increased 50 per cent., and one-third of the. children in the towns were seriously undernourished. Tuberculosis in Paris alone increased 48 per cent.
The Greek Minister of Health, Dr. Nicolas Tsoutis, announced in Athens that 15 out of every 20 Greek girls between the ages of 18 and 22 were at present suffering from tuberculosis. "The hardships of the occupation accounted for a million deaths throughout Greece, and the health of the remainder of the community was seriously undermined," he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1945, Page 7
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124HEALTH IN EUROPE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 63, 15 March 1945, Page 7
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