WORK AMONG THE REFUGEES IN GREECE.

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 1 April 1923, Page 67

WORK AMONG THE REFUGEES IN GREECE .

Mrs. Charlotte Heilman, an American Red Cross nurse, who has been directing the child welfare work in Athens for some considerable time, gives a most interesting account of the refugee situation in Greece. She has visited the refugee camps at the port and found the people in a very bad condition. The better class refugees are, where possible, taken into homes in Pireaus and Athens and are provided with clothes by the families who take them in. The American Committee, of which Mrs. Heilman is a member, has taken a

market place in Pireaus and is collecting families with small children to the number of 1000, who will be cared for until some other provision can be made for them. The chief doctor and most of the personnel are taken from amongst the refugees, and all except the doctor work without remuneration. Infant Welfare workers are volunteering their services and a British nurse has agreed to work for a small sum sufficient for her board. Mrs. Heilman reports that the Greeks are giving liberally to the General Committee, but that vast sums are urgently needed until industries can be developed to give the people employment. The housing situation is one of the most serious problems and is causing grave anxiety.