RUSSIA’S HOMELESS CHILDREN.
STARTLING REVELATIONS. (Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, April 7. The Daily Express’s Moscow correspondent says that startling revelations have been made before a special commission appointed by the Commissariat of Health to investigate the conditions among Russia’s homeless children. There are 50,000 in Moscow alone, of whom 40 per cent were found to be cocaine addicts. Dr Bockarov, Moscow’s most noted pathologist, declares he found that many children spent the equivalent of £4 to £lO weekly on cocaine, obtaining money almost entirely by stealing.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 1948, 8 April 1924, Page 5
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