POST-WAR EUROPE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 65, 19 March 1943, Page 6

POST-WAR EUROPE

CHILD RELIEF WORK PLANS UNDER WAY London. Two women—a doctor and a trained nurse—are helping to make 1 for maternity and child welfare relief in Europe after the cessation of hostilities. They are Dr. Dorothy Taylor, Senior Medical Officer in England and Wales, and Miss Pye, who had wide experience in relief work in Poland and Austria at the end of the last war. The committee on which they work consists of seven medical experts, four of the remaining five being doctors attached to Allied Governments in London. At a meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee on Medical Services recently held in London, it was agreed that doctors and nutrition experts should work in closest harmony to consider the question of what vitamin and mineral supplements will be required in the emergency period following hostilities. The nutrition experts have already drawn up a list of relief food stuffs—"iron rations”—which will be needed. It was found that these, by their very nature would be deficient in accessory food factors needed for the maintenance of health. Plans for doing away with this defiicency are now being prepared. Plans are being made for fighting epidemics—in particular, typhus and malaria—and for dealing with the large increase of tuberculosis In Europe. A. short emergency list of fifty.niiie drugs has been drawn up and a longer list for the continuation of medical relief beyond the immediate emergency period Is now being considered.