The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-01
YOUR ROWING REPORTERS
HOSPITALS IN BOXES WILL BE SENT
TO BLASTED CITIES IN WARS WAKE

for cold climates. The ducls don
look like fashion show models, but
they're good enough to keep up in
dividual morale. For men: one
pocket, collarless suits. For women:
Red-and- white cotton print dresses,
and rust wool dresses, with few
frills or buttons but In numerous
sizes and with undeniable style.
There are tWo-piece outfits for
misses: flannelette layettes for in
fantS; blue sweaters, pinafores and
shorts for youngsters. Shoes are not
snazzy; they have composition Soles
and canvas uppers.
"PACKAGED' HOSPITALS
Emergency hospital setups have
been bought, packed, and stored
in U. S. warehouses for quick ship
ment to Rome, Warsaw, Paris or
any other city that may get smash
ed before the Axis quits.
Each of the "packaged hospitals
contain everything for a 150-bed
medical station and occupies wood
case which, when emptied, will be-
come a good shelter for homeless
people.
Getting stuff hauled probably
will be the toughest nut to crack
and will take everything from
cargo planes to donkeys." says Her.
bert w. Parisius, chief American
agricultural advisor. With medical
officer, he went into Tunis the day
after 1t fell. They laM out the sue
cessful harvesting of North Africa,s
German-mined but beautiful wheat
crops. SURPRISES still there could
help feed Italy.
Italy itself is SO per cent self
sufficient. But if italian food stays
where it is, behind the Pc, and
Rome meanwhile is hit hard or
even isolated with its 100000
people, we will have to supply
cooked food from soup kitchens,
and toting stuff overland will be
no little job
Consequently the basic scheme
for UNRRA operations: estimate
global needs; pile up the where
witllal; prepare for variohs pos
sihle situations. DR.. James Crab
tree. chief American medical adj
visor, also has readied several
other kinds of medical units in
Guiding drugs but not equipment,
for Rome or other cities whose
hospitals may stand but whose
civilian casualties might be heavy,
One units which can travel by air
supplies 100000 people for one
month; another Is for 100000
people for three months. UNRRA
medical teams composed of chief
officer, pediatrician, principal nurse,
nutritionist, will move in right be-
hind the military, and will wire
back for so many units of stated
kinds.
AREAS IN NEED NOW
Areas of greatest need now, on
the basis Of fighting and destruc-
ton already done, are located by
Americans in this order: Poland,
Greece, Occupied China, Russia,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia. Each
Of these have big regions of total
need-for food, medicine, shelter,
clothes, child care. However, some
of them-notably Russia-also may
be big givers to UNRRA pools.
Question mark countries, besides
Italy, are France and Germany.
Germany's highly developed faci-
lities, it is thought, will not be
completely shattered The danger
spots are those, in the Balkans for
instance, where the little that ex-
listed originally now has been des-
troyed, and where populations are
streaming around. There will be
100000 to 10000 900 uprooted
people in Europe by the wars end;
maybe 100000 in Poland, maybe
100000 wandering children in
YugoSlavia.