wore cage, or starving people would steal it. All this failed in the end, however.   The problem was, not the will, but the means.   The 'refugees' from outside Warsaw had arrived with almost nothing -- food, clothes or possessions.   Slowly, despite everything they were doing, the inhabitants of the ghetto starved to death.   Children, especially, were vulnerable, and begging children were everywhere.   An organisation called Centos (Society for the Care of Orphans and Abandoned Children) was set up, but it could not cope with the huge numbers of starving children. Disease was an associated problem.   At the beginning of the ghetto, yellow spotted fever (carried by ticks) was a problem.   An organisation called TOZ (Society for the Protection of Health) was set up.   In fact, deaths from spotted fever had fallen as a result by 1942, but by that time there was an epidemic of typhus (a disease carried by lice). In January 1942, nearly 6,000 people -- and perhaps 100,000 people, 1939 to 1942 -- died of starvation and disease in the ghetto. Starving children, 1942.  By 1942, people were starving to death in the streets.   People became inured to the sight of death.   When a person died, other beggars would strip them of everything they possessed. The Jews in the ghetto adapted and adjusted.   The hundreds of people who lived around each 'well-shaft' -- the courtyards in the centre of the apartment-blocks -- formed communities which organised for themselves self-help, social events, religious ceremonies and even 'underground kitchens'