TUBERCULOSIS AMONG CHILDREN.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 86, 13 April 1920, Page 5

TUBERCULOSIS AMONG CHILDREN.

TERRIBLE FOOD SITUATION

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(Received April 18, 8.40 a.m.), •' LONDON, A*>ril 12. The. Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent states that the food supplies, are worse'than1 in 1019. The prices of: imported , foods have ' increased threefold.

Tuberculosis . among children has trebled' during /the, past few-months. Statistics compiled by, neutrals . show that 29,000 out of 475,000 Berlin children are suffering from, tuberculosis and 77,000 are suffering from various diseases due to under-feed-ing. One hundred thousand children are unfit to receive instruction owing to under-feeding. The figures for forty-three large towns show that 200,000 children are suffering from tuberculosis, and 860,----000 are badly underfed.