The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-09
'SNAPPY ITEMS"
As TAKEN FROM
GERMAN PAPERS

The Committee on Public Informa-
ton at Washington presents the ap-
pended news items as typical of what
IS now appearing in the leading news
papers of Germany:
Effects of Y. ar Feeding.
In the Soziale Praxis Nov. u DR.,
Thiele, municipal school physician in
Chemnitz, publishes some results of
Investigations as to the health of
school children during the war. A
general increase in cases of illness has
not taken place; the well-known in
fectious ailments do not appear more
frequently than before. Certain skin
diseases have increased. The influ-
ence of war food is clearly to be rec
ognized In groWn-up people a Curl
Gus new variety of disease has appear
ed the so-called oedema disease,
characterized by dropsical swellings of
the skin in different parts of the body
without apparent LESSONS in the heart
or kidneys. These swellings are di-
Iectly attributable to the present wat
cry diet. There are, moreover, COM
plants as to the increase. of heart
and kidney diseases, of strangulated
hernia and prolapsus; these two last
are connected with the general de-
crease of fatty tissue. The chief
complaints made, however, refer to
the increased number of pulmonary
tuberculosis cases and the high NOR
tally from this disease. The general
power of bodily resistance in old peo-
pie has greatly diminished; in the
case of children, tuberculosis, the
most serious children's disease has in
| creased. Children under suspicion
of tuberculosis are counted as tuber-
| culous for statistical purposes. In
| the opinion of experienced school
| physicians the majority of the ex-
tremely pale anaemic children become
| the subjects of tuberculosis in later
| life. The increase in the number of
| tuberculous children comedies with
| the beginning of the difficulties as to
food. The extent to which children's
bodies are weakened in resisting
power by inadequate nourishment is
well known.
Insurance of Civil Servants
The following is taken from an ar
ticle by DR.. Fritz LEM in the MUNICH
ner Medizinische Wochenschrift aug
21):
During the last few months the
idea of family insurance on a eugenis
basis for the Bavarian civil service
has taken tangible shape The plan
| originated with the Bavarian minis
try for communications, and was at
first confined to the officials of this
department, i. e., the postal tele-
graph, and railway servants. The
scheme, however, seems then to have
met with well-merited appreciation
from the other government depart
ments, so that now the foundation of
an insurance institution for the whole
of the Bavarian civil service is al
ready counted upon"
The pivot of the schemes is the obli-
gatory insurance of additional bonuses
for the children of all government Of
ficials CKinderzulagenveris
Families with at least three living
children are to receive a bonus for
each child out of the insurance, which
is for the most part provided for out
of the State funds.
Prices for Old Clothes.
The Vossische Zeitung (Oct. D states
that complaints of the poor prices
paid by the Clothing Utilisation Co
have apparently not been without eff
feet on the authorities, as they are
reported to be considering an increase
of the existing standard prices pait
for Old clothes.
Purchase of Stockings.
The Leipziger Volkszeitung (Oct. l.
says that the District Association 0:
Leipzig has purchased stockings fol
the poorer classes at the Imperia
clothing office.
"They will be handed over to thu
retail trade in the middle of Octobe.
for sale, and may be sold against {
supply voucher only to persons in tn
district of Leipzig who are not in
position to attend to their most press
ing requirements in any other way.
Scarity of Underclothing.
In a communication to the Vienn
Zeit (Oct y DR.. Paul Myrdacz, o
Graz, makes an earnest appeal TO
public help in providing undercioth
ing for soldiers.