TYPHOID RAGING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21850, 22 October 1945, Page 4

TYPHOID RAGING

BERLIN REFUGEES

REMOVAL OF CHILDREN

BETTER CHANCE IN WEST

EERLIN, Oct. 19,

Two hundred of about 300,000 refugees who arrived in Berlin .from Eastern Germany in the last month were found dead in the railway trucks in which they travelled. A British Military Government medical officer revealed that most of them died of typhoid or starvation. The health of refugees trying to get from Eastern Germany into the British zone is very bad.

From to-day the passing-on of refugees from Berlin to the British zone in Western Germany will cease, because for the next few weeks all transport will be allotted to “Operation Stork.” under which 50,000' children will be moved from the capital to the westqpn zone, where there is more chance of feeding them during the winter.

This will mean that refugees still arriving in Berlin from the East at the rate of 10,000 daily will pile up here, though there is no housing or food for them.

Epidemic typhoid continues to rage in Berlin, with a mortality rate of about 25 per cent. The venereal disease rate is extremly high, and in some areas 75 per cent of the women are found infected.