FOOD SHORTAGE IN EUROPE
In Hungary, people did not know how they wen? to feed their children, for the'supply of flour was finished in March; black bread and potatoes were about all the children were getting in onb European country; in another it was bread and vegetables only. Conditions were described as “heartbreaking,” by Miss Melina M. Ferguson, of London, in an interview. When visiting a boys’ home in France Miss Ferguson found that, although it was winter time, the boys had one grey cotton blanket only to cover them in bed. Woollen blankets were given only to women who were having,babies. * Malnutrition was rife in Europe. Children had forgotten how to snlile, and among them rickets, skin diseases, tuberculosis, and hunger oedema played vengeful havoc. In Poland, people fared miserably, using old hunkers and air-raid shelters for homes
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Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 11
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139FOOD SHORTAGE IN EUROPE Evening Star, Issue 26103, 17 May 1947, Page 11
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