The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-08
UllDERNOUREHMENTI IN
GERMANY IS APPALLING
Conditions Near a Famine,
According to a British
(contemporary Revlew.l

Contemporary Review)
4 n only rs you win the confidence
Of the people Of Germany and are ad-
nItted into their homes and get per.
sonalIy to know the doctors and the
teachers and are given free and infor.
NAL entry 70 the schools that the APP
paling truth dawns upon one that all
except the quite weil-to-do. are suffer-
Ing from lack OF proper food and from
und<rnourlshment they are standing
not 10 far from death. for continual
hunger. though II works verify slowly.
yer works very surely.
But you do not see death from star
Walton IN dramatic, convincing form;
you DO not see the begging in the
street. and are not confronted with
pitinblc sights In public. such as one
reads about in accounts OF beseiged and
starving cities. MOI all the starvation
u done quietly ana decently at home.
ana when death comes II comes In the
form Of influenza. tuberculosis. heart
failure. or one Of the new and mystic
fious diseases now arising. and carries
"a It's exhausted victims with ease. II
~ neither dramatic nor striking, and
can not be realized In n hasty visit.
Statistics OF disease and mortality
prove that the children have suffered
- an appalling degree for the last four
years The number OF deaths Of chill
dren between one and Ave years In
Prussia In 1914 was 1924. In 1918,
with the birth rate fallen to 10 per
cent. Of the 1914 figure, the number of
deaths was 61,369. In Mecklenburg-
Scnwerin, an essentially agricultural
district, the number OF children be-
tween one and Eve years who died In
ienburg,. $50 IN 1914 and $40 in 1918.
TN TO April. 1920, total OF one mill
lion children had persisted in conse-
Qnencc ~ privation.
than 100000 inhabitants have a total
reputation OF near i5.oO0,0OD. OF which
about s.st0.O00 are children (under is
years). An estimate based on investi-
cations made by the German Red Cross
81 Germany gives soo'sss s q e.. ! I per
cent? ~ the number Of tuberculous
children and Ss6.973 AZ the proportion OF
children III In other ways ss the result
of undernourishment. I. O.. total OF
cent OF the child population Of these
cities and can be coroborated from
other sources.
In. o r., Berlin. the American relief
misnion found the worst class of UNDER
Ted children to be rs per cent GOO. 5000
OF the total. But above the worst class
come two other degrees Of malnutritlon.
In Crefeld and also IN Leipzig the re-
turns OF relief workers give the worst
cases as 81 per cent; IN Coblenz. 80 per
cent NORMALLY nourfshed, rs per cent?.
In Cologne and Bergheim distrlcts only
~ per cent OF the children In 1919 were
fas'nd TO be normally nour.shed. Moro
over, the smaller towns OF Germany
fnnd even some parts OF the country
which are Industrial, Q. A.. the Erzge-
birge and parts Of Silesia) are suffer-
inE In many cases almost as seriously
AZ the larger towns.
Out OF population Of 10000, 900 IN
the smaller towns II would be safe 70 |
assume that there must be further |
1 100000 children actually III from Sc
we're undernourishment, ana this esti- |
mate takes no account OF the suffering |
country districts.