CHILD MORTALITY IN BELGIUM
London, Sept. 22. Zurich reports that message from Brussels confirm the frightful increase in child mortality in Belgium, where rickets and scurvy, due to lack of vitamin, were already widepread last yeai. Parents are now keeping childred in bed and are not sending them to school, and thousands of children have died. Food is urgently needed from abroad to prevent lasting damage to the next generation. All arrangements made for food after the war will be too late.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 225, 24 September 1942, Page 5
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